Independent People by Halldór Laxness

512 pages first pub 1934 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective sad slow-paced
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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 de...

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