A Parish Chronicle

Name: A Parish Chronicle
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Halldór Laxness, Philip Roughton

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Icelandic

Vintage Classics
20 October 2026

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction; Fiction in translation; Folklore, myths & legends

Series: Brief Encounters

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Halldor Laxness, the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, in this rich, rustic and charming novel.

An intimate, magical novel about one enduring church in a rural Icelandic valley - an ode to a quiet way of life now lost to time forever

The resting place of legendary Viking warrior Egil Skallagrimsson's skull, Mosfell Church is a lonely, country church, fated to be destroyed. But as the plans to destroy it take shape, stories, myth and folklore abound in one magical last attempt to leave Mosfell standing.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS- classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

By: Halldór Laxness
Translated by: Philip Roughton
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 110g
ISBN: 9781529985757
ISBN 10: 1529985757
Series: Brief Encounters
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 20 October 2026
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Halld r Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.