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Halldor Laxness

Iceland's Bell

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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 oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king's hangman.In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out o… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Roughton, Philip
  • ISBN: 978-1-4000-3425-3
  • EAN: 9781400034253
  • Produktnummer: 9671864
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Seitenangabe: 448 S.
  • Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.5 cm 322 g
  • Gewicht: 322

Über den Autor


Halldór Laxness was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction, and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he has written more than 60 books, including novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays, and memoirs. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1998.

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