Independent People
| ავტორი | Halldor Laxness |
|---|
Independent People by Halldór Laxness (Vintage) — the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic masterpiece. The story of the magnificently stubborn crofter Bjartur, who sacrifices everything for independence, is both absurd and devastating: one of world literature’s great portraits of human will. Translated by J.A. Thompson.
პროდუქტის ფასის ცვლილებაზე შეტყობინებები გააქტიურებულია. თუკი ეს პროდუქტი გაიაფდება, ამის შესახებ პირველი შენი გაიგებ.
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this sweeping Icelandic masterpiece follows Bjartur’s obsessive pursuit of independence on the harsh heath, where his refusal to compromise costs him everything—a darkly comic meditation on freedom, stubbornness, and the human cost of absolute self-determination. Laxness crafts an unforgettable portrait of a man willing to sacrifice his family, his community, and his own humanity for the right to answer to no one.
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Bjartur of Summerhouses has spent eighteen years in indentured servitude to win the right to his own small croft on the Icelandic heath. Free at last — and he will sacrifice everything to remain so. His sheep. His wives. His children. His neighbours. Anyone who stands between Bjartur and his absolute independence will find that he is willing to pay a price that no reasonable person would pay.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Independent People is the great Icelandic novel — a work of sweep and grandeur and dark comedy that stands alongside the masterpieces of any literature. Bjartur is one of the great characters in world fiction: maddening, magnificent, genuinely heroic, and capable of breathtaking cruelty, all at the same time. His struggle against poverty, the cold, the supernatural forces he half-believes in, and the soft pressures of human love and need is simultaneously absurd and deeply moving.
Laxness renders the Icelandic landscape — the heath, the winters, the sheep — with a beauty that makes the world of the novel feel utterly real. A book to love deeply and press into the hands of everyone you know. Translated by J.A. Thompson. Published by Vintage.
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| ავტორი | Halldor Laxness |
|---|---|
| გამომცემლობა | Vintage |
| გვერდების რაოდენობა | 470 |
| ISBN | 9780099527121 |
| ყდის ტიპი | რბილი ყდა |
| ენა | ინგლისური |
| ფორმატი | 198 x 129 mm |
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