Book · 1934 · Fiction

Independent People

Name: Independent People
Author: Halldor Laxness

Vintage International (Penguin Random House) · 482 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Eighteen years of hired labor buy Bjartur a stretch of Icelandic moorland, and he defends his independence against weather, debt, and his own family. Laxness makes stubbornness heroic and ruinous at once.

Genre

Realism Naturalism

Medium

Novel

Subject

Farming Rural life Poverty Stoicism

Setting

Iceland

Time

1934Depicts 1900s

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