Independent People - Halldor Laxness torrent

Category: Historical Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Iceland independence Servitude

Written by Halldor Laxness
Read by Michael Page
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Tantor Media
Date: April 2017
Duration: 20 hours 58 minutes
Sample narration here: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/independent-people/317683

Summary:
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 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 a masterpiece.

Genres:
Fiction & Literature> Literary Fiction