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Independent People
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Series: Vintage International
Literary CriticismClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0679767924
ISBN13: 9780679767923
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 14 1997
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679767923
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 14 1997
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. - A strange story, vibrant and alive.... There is a rare beauty in its telling. --Atlantic Monthly
If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself 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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