Independent People by Halldór Laxness, James Anderson Thompson (Translator) Through this book

Through this book

though outwardly a consummate professional

Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits

but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us

He accompanies and befriends an old Tibetan lama in search of a mythical river to gain enlightenment

Independent People by Halldór Laxness, James Anderson Thompson (Translator) Through this bookAmid the bleak, frozen wastes of an Icelandic winter, Bjartur of Summerhouses tends his sheep. A proud, stubborn man, who ekes out his humble living in a constant battle against nature, he has at last acquired his own small holding after eighteen years as a hired hand. Halldr Laxness's splendid achievement in this timeless, elemental masterpiece, which was one of the works for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955, is to have