
Independent People
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Narrated by:
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Michael Page
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By:
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Halldór Laxness
This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
Having spent 18 years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity, and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
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So from the point of view that he is a memorable character, I assume that is the reason the book has been given rave reviews and awards. But for me it was arduous to get through.
How one man can make many so miserable...
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a wonderful saga of Iceland and it's early sheep farmers.
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long but beautiful
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Excellent Audio Book!
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Útligangur
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I learned a lot about Iceland around the time I was born, as well as its history, during our cold, wet winter nights.
There’s some good humor in it occasionally but you have to pay close attention so you don’t miss it.
I do wish male narrators could refrain from voicing all females with what I imagine dolls would sound like, or faeries.
Long, Slow, Mostly Depressing
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Astounding
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Pre-trip reading assignment
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Of witness of Human character In the Education of a soul through a voyage Of a life.
An empathic voyage in poetic verse and philosophic breadth
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Bjatur sounds like a cartoon character
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