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Fish Can Sing by Laxness, Halldor
Category: Classics | Series: Panther S.
Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch of eccentrics and philosophers who find refuge in the simple respect for ...Show more
The Atom Station by Halldor Laxness
Category: Classics
"Laxness has been hailed as Iceland's John Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair combined. His is a significant voice in world literature" Magnus Magnusson When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after World War II, a storm of protest if provoked throughout ...Show more
Wayward Heroes by Halldor Laxness
Category: Classics
The oath-brothers Thorgeir and Thormod raid for treasure and seduce women against the backdrop of a new cult of Christianity. Eventually, Thormod must avenge Thorgeir's death, demonstrating the senselessness of violence and the endlessly cyclical nature of obsession.
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