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Under the Glacier
Halldor Laxness
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Description for Under the Glacier
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'Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written' Susan Sontag
A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith. The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife. He has also allowed a corpse to be lodged in the glacier. So the rumours go.
What he discovers is a community that regards itself as the centre of the world - earthly yet otherworldly, banal yet astonishing. Brimming with humour, mystery, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784877613
SKU
9781784877613
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Halldor Laxness
Halldór Laxness (Author) Halldór Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955. Susan Sontag (Introducer) ... Read more
Reviews for Under the Glacier
This is a novel of immense charm... It's a book of ideas, like no other Laxness ever wrote
Susan Sontag Under the Glacier is hilarious, in a deadpan, northern-edge-of-the-world sort of way
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon
Whimsical... deliriously funny... impishly chaotic
Kirkus Reviews
Under the Glacier is a journey to the center of Laxness's antic ... Read more
Susan Sontag Under the Glacier is hilarious, in a deadpan, northern-edge-of-the-world sort of way
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon
Whimsical... deliriously funny... impishly chaotic
Kirkus Reviews
Under the Glacier is a journey to the center of Laxness's antic ... Read more