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Independant People by Halldor Laxness.
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.
The book is about an Icelandic sheep farmer. Its not a light read, but it is my favourite book ever (and I have read alot of books) and I rarely have favourites in anything in life. This book will stay in your soul and live with you. Its harsh and dark and cruel, but Laxness writes like a painter... you fall into his pages so deeply you may want to rug up against the cold. It has pages and pages of men talking about sheep and the diseases of sheep.... but if you read closely, they are talking about more than sheep. Highly political too (as was Laxness) but the political overtones are as seen through the eyes of a very simplistic sheep farmer (or so he thinks) believing he is purely farming sheep and living from one day to the next (sometimes one hour to the next) yet all the while having the cataclismic forces of a world war (unseen and ignored) driving his greed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_People
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.
The book is about an Icelandic sheep farmer. Its not a light read, but it is my favourite book ever (and I have read alot of books) and I rarely have favourites in anything in life. This book will stay in your soul and live with you. Its harsh and dark and cruel, but Laxness writes like a painter... you fall into his pages so deeply you may want to rug up against the cold. It has pages and pages of men talking about sheep and the diseases of sheep.... but if you read closely, they are talking about more than sheep. Highly political too (as was Laxness) but the political overtones are as seen through the eyes of a very simplistic sheep farmer (or so he thinks) believing he is purely farming sheep and living from one day to the next (sometimes one hour to the next) yet all the while having the cataclismic forces of a world war (unseen and ignored) driving his greed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_People
Dotsie, yes, I've read the Bronte's 
Tony, got Book Thief sitting on my shelf right now. My daughter told me I MUST read it
Del, anyone who writes like a painter appeals to me greatly.
The rest of you lot, recommendations noted, listed, and will do
This is brilliant, I have enough here to last me quite a while, thank you all!
Tony, got Book Thief sitting on my shelf right now. My daughter told me I MUST read it
Del, anyone who writes like a painter appeals to me greatly.
The rest of you lot, recommendations noted, listed, and will do
This is brilliant, I have enough here to last me quite a while, thank you all!
