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....

Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People, by Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness, recalls both Iceland\"s medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset\"s Kristin Lavransdatter....

\"Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written\" Susan Sontag A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith. The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife....

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness\"s masterpiece Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by boat. She comes with her daughter, the young but gutsy Salka Valka....

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....

The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldor Laxness \"There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life\" New York Review of Books First published in 1946, this is a humane, epic novel set in rural Iceland....

Book DescriptionNobel laureate Halldor Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissaryto investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn?...