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Iceland's Bell
Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781400034253 Author(s): Halldor Kiljan Laxness Format: Paperback Year: 2003 Publisher: Vintage Dimensions: 135 x 212 x 24 (w x l x h) Pages: 448 Series: Vintage International Original (Paperback)
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Description: Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland's Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldor 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 on a far grander scale. Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as "Iceland's Sun," a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king's antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Iceland's Bell" "creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page.
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