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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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This is a novel of immense charm... It's a book of ideas, like no other Laxness ever wrote -- Susan Sontag
Under the Glacier is hilarious, in a deadpan, northern-edge-of-the-world sort of way -- Andrew O'Hehir * Salon *
Whimsical... deliriously funny... impishly chaotic * Kirkus Reviews *
Under the Glacier is a journey to the center of Laxness's antic imagination, and it is well worth the trip -- Vincent Czyz * The Arts Fuse *

Under the Glacier

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    A Paperback / softback by Halldór Laxness, Susan Sontag

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 10 February 2022
      ISBN-13 9781784877613
      978-1784877613
      ISBN-10 1784877611
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      Fiction Classics Religious & Spiritual Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      '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



      Trade Review
      This is a novel of immense charm... It's a book of ideas, like no other Laxness ever wrote -- Susan Sontag
      Under the Glacier is hilarious, in a deadpan, northern-edge-of-the-world sort of way -- Andrew O'Hehir * Salon *
      Whimsical... deliriously funny... impishly chaotic * Kirkus Reviews *
      Under the Glacier is a journey to the center of Laxness's antic imagination, and it is well worth the trip -- Vincent Czyz * The Arts Fuse *

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