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'The romance in this one is literally on FIRE' Reader review
It transported me to a world both familiar and utterly unknown
Ailie is recently widowed
With as much to say about the early years of the Cold War as about the political and social divisions that continue to divide the country today
an unexpected and troubling visitor plunges the narrator further into her past
Independent People - Halldor Laxness Pages:320 pages 'The romance in this oneSet in the early decades of the twentieth century, Independent People is a masterly realist novel evoking in rich detail a family and a rural community struggling to survive in the starkest of landscapes. At the same time it is infused with an intense awareness of Iceland's saga tradition and folklore. Bjartur of Summerhouses is a hard and sometimes cruel man, but his flinty determination to achieve independence is both genuinely heroic and bleakly