Under the Glacier

Under the Glacier
Susan Sontag, Halldor Laxness
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 272pg
10 Feb 2022 UK
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9781784877613
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Darkly funny and surprising novel about superstition and religion in an isolated Icelandic town. With an introduction from Susan Sontag. ' Wildly original, morose, uproarious. . . It is also one of the funniest books ever written' Susan SontagA young emissary of the Bishop is sent from Reykjavik to a small town to investigate the whether they are following Christianity- there are rumours that their pastor Jon Jonsson (known as Primus) has not drawn his salary for twenty years, that the church is boarded up and no services held, that the pastor lives with someone who is not his wife, and that he has allowed a corpse to be lodged in the glacier. Instead of burying the dead, he carries them up to the glacier and leaves them there. But once the unnamed emissary arrives, he finds that this negligence counts only as a mild eccentricity in this highly superstitious community, which regards itself as the centre of the world. Overflowing with farce, mystery, and magic, Under the Glacier is a wonderfully surprising and moving novel from the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author. INTRODUCED BY SUSAN SONTAG
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 imagination, and it is well worth the trip -- Vincent Czyz * The Arts Fuse *
Halld r 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.
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ISBN-13: 9781784877613
Published: 10 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 219g
Pages: 272

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