Iceland's Bell

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Beschreibung

<b>From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king’s hangman.</b><br><br>In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale. Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as “Iceland’s Sun,” a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king’s antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Laxness creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page.<br><br>Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, <i>Iceland's Ball</i> is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781400034253

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

204 x 134 x 24 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Verlag / Hersteller

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group