Author: Halldor Laxness

The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldór Laxness'There are good books and there are great books and there may be a boo...

Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, Independent People is a masterly realist novel evoking in rich detail a family and a rural commu...

*BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE*'Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility. An endearing and...

When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked througho...

'Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written' Susan SontagA naive young man is sent by the bishop of I...

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness's masterpieceLate one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village,...