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Author Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998, author.

Title Independent people / Halldór Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by J.A. Thompson ; with an introduction by John Freeman.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3006529~S1
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 95th Street Adult Fiction  F HALLDOR    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F HALLDOR    DUE 05-06-24
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Description xli, 501 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Everyman's library ; 397.
Note "Originally published in two volumes as Sjálfstætt fólk in 1934-35"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "An epic tale of a stubborn sheep farmer named Bjartur of Summerhouses who decides to spit in the direction of his country's pagan traditions, and its landowners, making his way alone."-- from John Freeman's introduction.
Subject Sheep ranchers -- Iceland -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Iceland -- Fiction.
Iceland -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Iceland -- Fiction.
Iceland.
Added Author Thompson, J. A. (J. Anderson), translator.
Freeman, John, 1974- writer of introduction.
Translation of (expression): Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998. Sjálfstætt fólk. English.
ISBN 1101908270 (hardcover)
9781841593975 (hardcover, UK)
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