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ISBN: 9781860469343 - The Fish Can Sing The Fish Can Sing
Halldor Laxness

ISBN10: 1860469345  ISBN13: 9781860469343
Publisher: Vintage The Harvill Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Sep 2001
A childhood in Iceland is the background to this powerful and evocative tale.Halldor Laxness's wistfully tender novel tells the tale of Alfgrim, an abandoned child, whose mother gave birth to him in the turf-and-stone cottage of Bjorn of... More

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ISBN: 9780099527121 - Independent People Independent People
Halldor Laxness

ISBN10: 009952712X  ISBN13: 9780099527121
Publisher: Vintage Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jul 2008
Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only Asta Solillja, the child he brings up as his... More

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ISBN: 9780099455158 - The Atom Station The Atom Station
Halldor Laxness

ISBN10: 0099455153  ISBN13: 9780099455158
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Mar 2004
When the Americans make an offer to buy Icelandic land to build an atomic war base, a storm of protest is provoked. Told by a country girl from the north, this novel follows her experiences upon taking up employment as a maid in the house of her... More

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ISBN: 9780375727580 - Paradise Reclaimed Paradise Reclaimed
Halldor Laxness

ISBN10: 0375727582  ISBN13: 9780375727580
Publisher: Random House USA Inc Vintage Books
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jul 2003
An idealistic Icelandic farmer journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise in this novel by Nobel Prize winning Halldor Laxness.The quixotic hero of this long-lost classic is a Steiner of Hlidar, a generous but very poor man who lives... More

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ISBN: 9780375727573 - World Light World Light
Halldor Laxness

ISBN10: 0375727574  ISBN13: 9780375727573
Publisher: Random House USA Inc Vintage Books
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jul 2003
As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation: the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforce his sense of destiny... More

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ISBN: 9781595690562 - Sendependaj Homoj (romantraduko En Esperanto) Sendependaj Homoj (romantraduko En Esperanto)
Halldor Laxness

ISBN10: 1595690565  ISBN13: 9781595690562
Publisher: Mondial
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Sep 2007
Independent People is an epic novel by Halldor Laxness, published 1934-35. Its subject is the struggle of poor Icelandic farmers in the early 1900s, only freed from debt bondage in the last generation, and surviving on an isolated croft in... More

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ISBN: 9781860467769 - Independent People Independent People
Halldor Laxness

ISBN10: 1860467768  ISBN13: 9781860467769
Publisher: Vintage The Harvill Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Sep 2001
Bjartur is a sheep farmer. After 18 years of servitude to a master he despises, he desires to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. Only Asta, the child he brings up, can pierce his rebatative soul, but she wishes to live unbeholden to him. More

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ISBN: 9780679767923 - Independent People Independent People
Halldor Laxness

ISBN10: 0679767924  ISBN13: 9780679767923
Publisher: Random House USA Inc Vintage Books
Edition: 1st Vintage International Ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 1997
In an epic set in Iceland in the early twentieth century, Gudbjartur Jonsson buys his own croft after eighteen years of service to the local bailiff, and brings his wife and his small flock of sheep there to build a new, independent life for himself. More

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ISBN: 9780844669496 - Independent People Independent People
Halldor Laxness

ISBN10: 0844669490  ISBN13: 9780844669496
Publisher: Smith (Peter),US
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Jan 1999

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ISBN: 9780048230300 - Salka Valka Salka Valka
Halldor Laxness

ISBN10: 0048230308  ISBN13: 9780048230300
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Dec 1963