Gens Indépendants by Halldór Laxness

497 pages first pub 1934 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective sad slow-paced
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Amid the bleak, frozen wastes of an Icelandic winter, Bjartur of Summerhouses tends his sheep. A proud, stubborn man, who ekes out his humble living in a constant battle against nature, he has at last acquired his own small holding after eighteen ...

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