Determined that he will someday be a great poet, Olaf Karason pursues his dream in the face of the contempt and indifference of the people around him, taking up a life of poverty, loneliness, failed love affairs, and sexual scandal as he journeys across Iceland to seek his goal. Reprint. 17,500 firs[...]

This title is a satire on politics, politicians, Communists, anti-Communists, phoney culture fiends, big business and all the pretensions of authority. The novel follows a country girl's experiences after she takes up employment as a maid in the house of her Member of Parliament.[...]

In time for the centenary of Iceland’s Nobel laureate and author of Independent People–his delightful novel of a poor Icelandic farmer’s journey to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise.

Steinar of Hlidar is a generous but very poor man, living peacefully on a remote I[...]

Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch of eccentrics and philosophers who find refuge in the simple respect [...]

Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland's Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldor Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme povert[...]