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Independent People: Introduction by John Freeman

Independent People: Introduction by John Freeman

Freeman, John
Laxness, Halldor

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Classics

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ISBN10: 1101908270
ISBN13: 9781101908273
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Oct 6 2020
Pages: 552
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

A beautifully jacketed hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's beloved epic novel about a stubbornly independent Icelandic sheep farmer and his spirited daughter.

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 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.

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