Аннотация: Independent People

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. 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, 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.

Автор/составитель	Laxness Halldor
Серия	Everyman`s Library
Год выпуска	2020
ISBN	9781841593975
Производитель	Everyman
Количество томов	1
Количество страниц	502
Переплет	Суперобложка
Размеры	211x135x33 мм
Тип бумаги	офсетная (60-220 г/м2)
Вес	572
Язык	английский