Under the Glacier

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

Summary

'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

Product details

• Authors: Haldor Laxness, Halldor Laxness, Halldór Laxness
• Assisted by: Susan Sontag (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.01.2022
• EAN: 9781784877613
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-761-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Religious, Iceland, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Religious and spiritual fiction