Independent People by Halldor Laxness

Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap Prices
No reviews yet Write a Review
MSRP: ₱1,999.00
Empire: ₱1,399.00
You save ₱600.00
SKU:
9780679767923
Condition:
New
In Stock & Ready To Ship!
Current Stock:Only left:

Frequently Bought Together:

Total: Inc. Tax
Total: Ex. Tax

Description

From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. • "A strange story, vibrant and alive…. There is a rare beauty in its telling." —Atlantic Monthly.

If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself 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 turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.

Book Details

Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
512
ISBN:
9780679767923
Published:
14 Jan 1997
Weight:
465g
Dimensions:
203 x 132 (mm)
Language:
English

Product Reviews

No reviews yet Write a Review