Independent People (discounted) - Halldor Laxness Louis Aragon Protestant galley slaves laboring under

Protestant galley slaves laboring under the persecution of Louis XIV

“[An] engrossing and satisfying tale

Director of the Kumu Museum

who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy and deep abiding cruelties running parallel

Independent People (discounted) - Halldor Laxness Louis Aragon Protestant galley slaves laboring underIndependent People by Halldr Laxness ISBN 9781841593975 501 page hardback from Everyman's Library discounted copies with a remainder dot and minor wear *** Set 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