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Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998.
Subjects
Brothers -- Fiction.
Heroes -- Fiction.
Violence -- Fiction.
Iceland -- Fiction.
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Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998.
Brothers -- Fiction.
Heroes -- Fiction.
Violence -- Fiction.
Iceland -- Fiction.
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Wayward heroes / Halldor Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by Phillip Roughton.
by
Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998.
Archipelago Books, 2016.
Call #:
FICTION
LAX
Subjects
Brothers --
Fiction
.
Heroes --
Fiction
.
Violence --
Fiction
.
Iceland --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780914671091 (trade pbk.)
Uniform title:
Gerpla. English
Edition:
1st Archipelago Books ed.
Description:
467 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes:
"Published in 1952, Wayward Heroes is part of the body of works for which Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1955. It is a masterfully written tragicomedy about the oath-brothers Thorgeir and Thormod, inspired by the old Icelandic sagas Saga of the Sworn Brothers and Saga of Saint Olaf. The brothers fight for glory, raid for treasure, and seduce women against the backdrop of a new cult of Christianity. But where the old sagas depict their heroes as glorious champions, Laxness does the opposite. As Thormod avenges Thorgeir's death, he demonstrates the senselessness of violence and the endlessly cyclical nature of obsession."--From publisher.
Translated from the Icelandic.
Genre:
Suspense
fiction
.
Icelandic
fiction
-- Translations into English.
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1
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