Under the glacier /
Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998.
Under the glacier / Halldór Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson ; introduction by Susan Sontag. - New York : Vintage, 2005. - xvi, 240 pages ; 21 cm
"At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snaefells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress"--Cover.
1400034418 9781400034413
2004043086
Glaciers--Iceland--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
Icelandic fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Under the glacier / Halldór Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson ; introduction by Susan Sontag. - New York : Vintage, 2005. - xvi, 240 pages ; 21 cm
"At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snaefells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress"--Cover.
1400034418 9781400034413
2004043086
Glaciers--Iceland--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
Icelandic fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Domestic fiction.