Halldór Laxness

A young Icelandic priest is sent to investigate the pastor at remote Snaefells Glacier and uncovers a mysterious and wild community full of phantasmagoria and eccentricity, in a provocative novel by the late Nobel laureate. Original. 10,000 first printing.

Under the Glacier

Determined that he will someday be a great poet, Olaf Karason pursues his dream in the face of the contempt and indifference of the people around him, taking up a life of poverty, loneliness, failed love affairs, and sexual scandal as he journeys across Iceland to seek his goal. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

World Light

Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch of eccentrics and philosophers who find refuge in the simple respect for their fellow men that is the ethos at the Brekkukot. But the narrow horizons of Alfgrimur's idyllic childhood are challenged when he starts school and meets Iceland's most famous singer, the mysterious Garoar Holm. Garoar encourages him to aim for the 'one true note', but how can he attain it without leaving behind the world that he loves?

The Fish Can Sing

When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country. Narrated by a country girl from the north, the novel follows her experiences after she takes up employment as a maid in the house of her Member of Parliament. Her observations and experiences expose the bourgeois society of the south as rootless and shallow and in stark contrast to the age-old culture of the solid and less fanciful north.

The Atom Station

Halldor Kiljan Laxness

At the turn of the eighteenth century, in an Iceland that exists as an oppressed colony of Denmark, farmer Jon Hreggvidsson finds himself a fugitive on a trumped up charge of murder after making a bawdy joke at the expense of the Danish king and becomes caught in the middle of a troubled love affair between a beautiful noblewoman and the king's antiquarian. Original. 10,000 first printing.

Iceland's Bell

First published in 1946, this humane epic novel is set in rural Iceland in the early twentieth century. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only Asta Solillja, the child he brings up as his daughter, can pierce his stubborn heart. As she grows up, keen to make her own way in the world, Bjartus' obstinacy threatens to estrange them forever.

Independent People

Silvia Cosimini

Gente indipendente

Özgür İnsanlar

Il concerto dei pesci

Philip Roughton

Salka Valka

Floreal Mazía

Gente independiente

Íslandsklukkan

La base atomica

Ungfrúin góða og Húsið

Os Peixes Também Sabem Cantar

Het lot van een arme IJslandse boer in de 17e eeuw wordt symbool voor de manier waarop de Deense koning IJsland behandelt.

De klok van IJsland

Genudgivelse med forord af Kristin Marja Baldursdottir. Halldór Laxness modtog i 1955 Nobelprisen i litteratur og står i dag som det tyvende århundredes vigtigste islandske forfatter. Denne roman handler om Salka Valka, en af de største kvindeskikkelser i Laxness’ forfatterskab, der kæmper for at opnå et menneskeværdigt liv. Skal hun klare sig selv, må hun fornægte det almindelige kvindeliv og arbejde ved fiskeriet som mændene ...

Med forord af Kristín M. Baldursdóttir

Traces a poor Icelandic farmer's journey to Mormon Utah and back, as he desperately tries to reunite his broken family. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Independent People. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Halldór Laxness

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