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Independent People
Halldór Laxness
Literature
James Mustich
Jul 29, 2018
Who wants to read five hundred pages about a sheep farmer in Iceland? You do. And once you’ve done so, you’ll want to tell every book-loving friend you have about it, too. Set in the early twentieth century yet suffused with the ghosts of medieval Icelandic sagas and even older narratives, it’s the magnum opus of Halldór Laxness, Iceland’s most revered author. Recounting a sheep farmer’s fierce struggle to achieve a small measure of economic independence, it embraces themes of love, duty, poetry, and mortality with an intensity of imagination both absorbing and exhilarating.
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Rebecca
Apr 23, 2019
Expansive and painful.
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Wolfgang Laun
Dec 1, 2021
A tale that invades your mind, to stay there. Splendid narrative, I've read more tedious thrillers.
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