Paradise Reclaimed

Halldor Laxness

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Vintage Books
15 March 2002

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fantasy

Series: Vintage International

From the Nobel Prize winner comes a captivating novel about an idealistic Icelandic farmer who journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise. . ""Full of an earthy poetry...a style wonderfully wise and entirely Scandinavian in its combination of magic and reality."" -The New York Times Book Review . With an introduction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres.

The quixotic hero

of this long-lost classic is Steinar of Hlidar, a generous but very poor man who

lives peacefully on a tiny farm in nineteenth-century Iceland with his wife and two

adoring young children. But when he impulsively offers his children's beloved pure-white

pony to the visiting King of Denmark, he sets in motion a chain of disastrous events

that leaves his family in ruins and himself at the other end of the earth, optimistically

building a home for them among the devout polygamists in the Promised Land of Utah.

By the time the broken family is reunited, Laxness has spun his trademark blend of

compassion and comically brutal satire into a moving and spellbinding enchantment,

composed equally of elements of fable and folkore and of the most humble truths.

By: Halldor Laxness
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9780375727580
ISBN 10: 0375727582
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 March 2002
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Halldor Laxness was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he has written more than sixty books, including novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays, and memoirs. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1998. In time for the centenary of the birth of Iceland's Nobel Laureate: his delightful novel of a poor Icelandic farmer's journey to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise.

Reviews for Paradise Reclaimed

Laxness has genuine magic as a novelist. --New York Herald Tribune The qualities of the sagas pervade his writing, and particularly a kind of humor--oblique, stylized and childlike--that can be found in no other contemporary writer. --Atlantic Monthly Full of an earthy poetry...a style wonderfully wise and entirely Scandinavian in its combination of magic and reality. --The New York Times Book Review