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Independent People
Independent People
Author: Halldor Laxness, J. A. Thompson (Translator)
This magnificent novel -- which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature -- is at last available to contemporary American readers. Although it is set in the early twentieth century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679767923
ISBN-10: 0679767924
Publication Date: 1/14/1997
Pages: 512
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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