Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, Book Club Ed., 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 470 pages. The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldor Laxness, 'There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life' New York Review of Books. This is a humane, epic novel set in rural Iceland. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family, will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only Asta Solillja, the child he brings up as his daughter, can pierce his stubborn heart. As she grows up, keen to make her own way in the world, Bjartus's obstinacy threatens to estrange them forever. No dust jacket, gilt lettering on spine faded, name on front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
