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Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998.
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Sheep ranchers -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Iceland -- Fiction.
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Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998.
Sheep ranchers -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Iceland -- Fiction.
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Independent people : an epic / Halldór Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by J.A. Thompson ; introduction by Brad Leithauser.
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Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998.
Vintage International, 1997, c1946.
Call #:
FICTION
LAX
Subjects
Sheep ranchers --
Fiction
.
Fathers and daughters --
Fiction
.
Iceland --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780679767923 (trade pbk.)
Uniform title:
Sjálfstætt folk. English English
Edition:
1st Vintage International ed.
Description:
xxiv, 482 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Alfred A. Knop, Inc., New York, in 1946."--T.p. verso.
"Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955 for this novel."--Back cover.
Translated from the Icelandic.
Summary:
"Bijartur 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. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turn harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail."--Back cover.
Genre:
Icelandic
fiction
-- Translations into English.
Epic
fiction
.
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1
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Tantallon Public Library
Adult Fiction
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