Under the Glacier (Vintage International) - Softcover

Laxness, Halldor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400034418 ISBN 13: 9781400034413

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2005

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Críticas:

"One of the world's most unusual, skilled and visionary novelists." -Jane Smiley

"Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-century literature, a writer of splendid originality, wit, and feeling." -Alice Munro

"The qualities of the sagas pervade his writing, and particularly a kind of humor-oblique, stylized and childlike-that can be found in no other contemporary writer." -The Atlantic Monthly

"One of the world's most unusual, skilled and visionary novelists." -Jane Smiley

"A marvelous novel about the most ambitious questionsÉ. It is also one of the funniest books ever written.: --Susan Sontag, from the Introduction

"The qualities of the sagas pervade his writing, and particularly a kind of humor-oblique, stylized and childlike-that can be found in no other contemporary writer." -The Atlantic Monthly

"Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-century literature, a writer of splendid originality, wit, and feeling." -Alice Munro

Reseña del editor:

A young Icelandic priest is sent to investigate the pastor at remote Snaefells Glacier and uncovers a mysterious and wild community full of phantasmagoria and eccentricity, in a provocative novel by the late Nobel laureate. Original. 10,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400034418
• ISBN 13: 9781400034413
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256