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. 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, Bjar Independent People - Halldór Laxness od authora Halldór Laxness a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Halldór Laxness |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
482 |
Rok vydání |
2011 |
Žánr |
beletrie |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
Vintage |