Original title: Íslandsklukkan / Halldór Laxnes
Title in English: The Iceland's Bell / Halldor Laxness
Description: This book is an historical novel "Íslandsklukkan" (in English translates as "Iceland's Bell") by Nobel prize-winning Icelandic author Halldór Kiljan Laxness. "Íslandsklukkan" is Halldór Laxness's 7th novel, originally published in in three parts: Íslandsklukkan (1943), Hið ljósa man (1944) og Eldur í Kaupinhafn (1946). This book, along with several other major novels, helped Laxness win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.
Halldór Laxness (1902 – 1998) was extraordinarily prolific and versatile as a writer. During his long career he published sixty books representing every genre— novels and short stories, poetry and essays, plays and newspaper articles, travelogues and autobiographical sketches, novellas and memoirs. Halldór Laxness has won more fame than any other Icelandic author since Snorri Sturluson and the nameless authors of the Icelandic sagas. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and published in countries around the globe. For Icelanders, Halldór Laxness is a national icon.
"Íslandsklukkan" is grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating novel that 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 from extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes an improper 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 Jon 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.
Language: Icelandic
Dimensions: 140 × 210 × 50 mm / 5.5 × 8.3 × 2.0 in
Weight: 700 g / 25 oz
Pages: 448
Edition: 3rd Edition. Printed in Reykjavik in 1969.
Condition: The book in very good condition (see photos). Hardcover. The spine of a books is gold titling.
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