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Fish Can Sing by Laxness, Halldor
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Panther S.
Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch of eccentrics and philosophers who find refuge in the simple respect for ...Show more
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"First published in 1946, this humane epic novel is set in rural Iceland in the early twentieth century. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only A ...Show more
The Atom Station by Halldor Laxness
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics
"Laxness has been hailed as Iceland's John Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair combined. His is a significant voice in world literature" Magnus Magnusson When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after World War II, a storm of protest if provoked throughout ...Show more
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