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Original Title:	Sjálfstætt fólk
ISBN:	0679767924 (ISBN13: 9780679767923)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Sjálfstætt fólk #1-4
Characters:	Bjartur í Sumarhúsum, Ásta Sóllilja, Nonni, Helgi, Gvendur, Ingólfur Arnarson, Rauðsmýrarmaddaman, Jón, hreppstjóri, Rósa, Finna, Hallbera
Setting:	Iceland
Literary Awards:	Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2005)

Independent People (Sjálfstætt fólk #1-4) Paperback | Pages: 482 pages

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This magnificent novel—which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature—is at last available to contemporary American readers. Although it is set in the early twentieth 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 eighteen 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 simply a masterpiece

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Title	:	Independent People (Sjálfstætt fólk #1-4)
Author	:	Halldór Laxness
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 482 pages
Published	:	January 14th 1997 by Vintage (first published 1934)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature

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It took me a little to do this thing with Independent People. 500 pages of itsy bitsy print: it requires a monogamous, long term commitment. But, Brad Leithauser enthuses in the foreword, this is the book of my life. I have to reign in the suspicion I am its only ideal reader. Hey ho, not a bad sell. Still, why? What is the book about?Well, its a book about sheep says Leithauser. Well, for heavens sake. 500 pages about sheep, do I have it in me? Im not Welsh after all, where the men are men and

Everything that one has ever created achieves reality. And soon the day dawns when one finds oneself at the mercy of the reality one has created.There is a subtle beauty in this text - an expansive desolation that plays as canvas to Laxness' protagonist Bjartur of Summerhouses creation of an independent life. Told in the early years of the 20th century on the hard-scrabble tundra of rural Iceland, the narrative follows the course of this stubborn Bjartur and his quixotic life-long quest for

It's a great novel about class, personal liberty, capitalism and hope for the future and you missed the bleeding lot.



It is hard to write about this novel, but others have managed to do so with words that make perfect sense. Perhaps, though, I'm still caught in that after-book glow, figuring out just whether or not my love for this book will condense itself into sentences with letters and words and commas and periods. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. For your sake and mine I'll keep this blathering short and encourage you, instead, to go and read reviews from others on this site. There are good ones.It is a

Independent People is a poetic and insightful portrayal of Icelandic life in the mid-twentieth century. In a foreign land and exotic to most, Halldor Laxness beautifully conveys one man's struggle for independence and questions what it means to be truly independent. Bjartur, Independent People's protagonist, was born into servitude and breaks free the shackles of debt only to become enslaved by sheep, the harsh Icelandic climate, and to a lesser degree the supernatural world and politics.

I kept waiting, waiting, for Bjartur Jonsson to break from his character. Not about his politics, which were entirely pragmatic. And not about his essential philosophy, that a man must be independent and reliant on no one. But surely to his family. Surely there would be one wife or a child that would turn his soul - when one has a flower. There were moments, or more precisely near-moments. And you could read into the text, I suppose, and believe that he actually had a moment when he loved a