This book, along with several other major novels, helped Laxness win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.-Wiki SUPERIOR & UNCOMMON COPY: Tight, bight, clean. It recounts the struggle of poor Icelandic farmers in the early 20th century, recently freed from debt bondage, and surviving on isolated crofts in a harsh landscape. Independent People (Icelandic: Sjálfstætt fólk ~ Self-reliant Folk) is an epic novel by Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, originally published in two volumes in 19. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Halldór Laxness (1902 - 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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8vo, black cloth with gold lettering and Viking designs on spine and front cover + blindstamp "Borzoi Books" on rear cover archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped: no price) with overhead sketch of Icelandic seaside settlement, publisher's red topstain, vi + 470 pages + A Note on the Type.
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