Independent People [Audiobook] download free by Halldór Laxness
- Listen audiobook: Independent People
- Author: Halldór Laxness
- Release date: 2011/7/9
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780679767923
- Rating: 7.16 of 10
- Votes: 171
- Review by: Jayson Osorio
- Review rating: 8.22 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/16
- Duration: 6H1M18S in 256 kbps (96.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MPEG4, WMA (compression ZIP, RAR, CPIO, AZW4)
- Total pages original book: 482
- Includes a PDF summary of 48 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 36M37S (9.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel-'funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant' (Annie Proulx)-at last available to contemporary American readers. Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Sagas, Literary Studies: General
- Download servers: 4Shared, Syncthing, Microsoft OneDrive, FreakShare, MEGA. Compressed in ZIP, RAR, CPIO, AZW4
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 21.48 USD
- Dimensions: 132x203x28mm
- Weight: 520g
- Printed by: Vintage Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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