Independent People Audiobook by Halldór Laxness

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/47/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Independent People Author: Halldór Laxness Narrator: Michael Page Format: Unabridged Length: 20 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 04-18-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 74 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's Summary: This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent 18 years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity, and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece. Critic Reviews: "A huge, skaldic treat filled with satire, humor, pathos, cold weather and sheep." ( Publishers Weekly)