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'Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written' Susan Sontag

A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith. The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife. He has also allowed a corpse to be lodged in the glacier. So the rumours go.

What he discovers is a community that regards itself as the centre of the world - earthly yet otherworldly, banal yet astonishing. Brimming with humour, mystery, and the supernatural this is a surprising and moving novel from the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN SONTAG

Under the Glacier

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Paperback / softback by Halldór Laxness , Susan Sontag

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'Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written' Susan SontagA naive young man is... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 10/02/2022
    ISBN13: 9781784877613, 978-1784877613
    ISBN10: 1784877611

    Number of Pages: 272

    Fiction , Classics

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    'Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written' Susan Sontag

    A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith. The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife. He has also allowed a corpse to be lodged in the glacier. So the rumours go.

    What he discovers is a community that regards itself as the centre of the world - earthly yet otherworldly, banal yet astonishing. Brimming with humour, mystery, and the supernatural this is a surprising and moving novel from the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author.

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN SONTAG

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