Under the Glacier by Laxness, Halldor

Under the Glacier

Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness's Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once...
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Author: Halldor Laxness
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Language: English
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Under the Glacier by Laxness, Halldor

Under the Glacier

Dhs. 96.66

Under the Glacier

Dhs. 96.66
Author: Halldor Laxness
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Nobel laureate Halldór 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 emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn fells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead.

But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress.

What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced "ooh-a," which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept?

Piling improbability on top of improbability, Under the Glacier overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound.

Author: Halldor Laxness
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/01/2005
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781400034413


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2005 pg. 76

About the Author
Halldór Laxness was born near Reykjavík, 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 wrote more than sixty books, including novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays, and memoirs. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Laxness died in 1998.

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