As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation: the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for... Zobraziť viac
Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland’s Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an... Zobraziť viac
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel—”funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant” (Annie Proulx)—at last available to contemporary American readers... Zobraziť viac
