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This magnificent novel—which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature—is at least available to contemporary American readers. Although it is set in the early twentieth century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man.
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 14 January 1997
ISBN-10 : 0679767924 | ISBN-13: 9780679767923
Release date: 14 January 1997
ISBN-10 : 0679767924 | ISBN-13: 9780679767923
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