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Independent People. An Epic

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#213328
Titel	Independent People. An Epic
Auteur	Laxness, Halldor
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Vintage International
Jaar van uitgave	1997
ISBN10	0679767924
ISBN13	9780679767923
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel—''funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant'' (Annie Proulx)—at last available to contemporary American readers. Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. 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. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns ... (Lees verder)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.
Pagina's	482
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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