A story about growing up, full of the strangeness, humour and beauty of Iceland
Halld r Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.
Laxness is a poet who writes to the edge of the pages, a visionary
who allows us a plot: he takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in
an Evelyn Waugh-like humour: it is not possible to be
unimpressed
*Daily Telegraph*
This weird and wonderful novel, about the price you pay for 'the
one true note', is Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad
hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility. An endearing and
unforgettable voice
*Nicholas Shakespeare*
It is a novel (a world) that transmits something of the wonder of
life, its strangeness, its goodness, ocassions for stubbornness,
and the stoicism of people - people everywhere
*Murray Bail*
Laxness's view of a child's bounded universe has humour and a light
touch
*Guardian*
Laxness is a poet who writes to the edge of the pages, a visionary
who allows us a plot: he takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in
an Evelyn Waugh-like humour: it is not possible to be unimpressed *
Daily Telegraph *
This weird and wonderful novel, about the price you pay for 'the
one true note', is Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad
hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility. An endearing and
unforgettable voice * Nicholas Shakespeare *
It is a novel (a world) that transmits something of the wonder of
life, its strangeness, its goodness, ocassions for stubbornness,
and the stoicism of people - people everywhere * Murray Bail *
Laxness's view of a child's bounded universe has humour and a light
touch * Guardian *
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