Independent People
The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldór Laxness
''There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life'' New York Review of Books
First published in 1946, this is a humane, epic novel set in rural Iceland. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothin...
The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldór Laxness
''There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life'' New York Review of Books
First published in 1946, this is a humane, epic novel set in rural Iceland. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothin...
