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Under the Glacier

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First published: 1968
Pages: 192

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Halldór Laxness's novel "Under the Glacier" is unique, natural and mysterious. In the first scene, the Icelandic Bishop dispatches a youthful envoy to look into certain charges made against the pastor at Snaefells Glacier, who doesn't appear to be burying the dead. The story takes place in a town that considers itself to be the center of the universe, where creation is still happening.

About the author

Halldór Laxness

Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway.