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Vintage Classics: Under the Glacier

Halldór Laxness


  • Random House - Vintage Classics
  • by Halldór Laxness, Susan Sontag
A surprising and moving novel from the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author. A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith. The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife. He has also allowed a corpse to be lodged in the glacier. So the rumours go. What he discovers is a community that regards itself as the centre of the world - earthly yet otherworldly, banal yet astonishing.

ISBN 9781784877613 | EN | PB
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Publisher Random House - Vintage Classics
ISBN 9781784877613
Author(s) Halldór Laxness, Susan Sontag
Publication date February 2022
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Pages 272
Language(s) English ed.
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A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith. The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife. He has also allowed a corpse to be lodged in the glacier. So the rumours go.

What he discovers is a community that regards itself as the centre of the world - earthly yet otherworldly, banal yet astonishing. Brimming with humour, mystery, and the supernatural this is a surprising and moving novel from the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author.

'Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written' Susan Sontag