Independent People

ISBN-13: 9780099527121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 544 str.

Halldor Laxness

Opis

Bjartus is a sheep farmer. After 18 years of servitude to a master he despises, he desires to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. Only Asta, the child he brings up, can pierce his stubborn heart, but she wishes to live unbeholden to him.

Recenzje

The greatest Icelandic novel and surely one of the best books of the 20th century... I read it as a teenager and it had a life-lasting effect Hallgrímur Helgason, author of 101 Reykjavik Guardian

O autorze

Halldór Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.