One of this author's early novels centers around a young woman living in a small fishing community which comes into conflict with merchants.
One of this author's early novels centers around a young woman living in a small fishing community which comes into conflict with merchants. That novel, Salka Valka, expressed his Socialist views, a major theme of many of his novels. An orphaned boy admires a famous singer in The Fish Can Sing, while in a later novel set in a cursed valley the sheep farmer Bjartur disowns his child Asta and loses two wives. In another novel, published in three parts, a farmer is sentenced to death for murder and flees to Denmark, and most beautiful woman in Iceland is in love with a collector of manuscripts named Arnas Arnaeus. FTP, name this Icelandic author of Independent People and Iceland's Bell.
One of this author's early novels centers around a young woman living in a small fishing community which comes into conflict with merchants.
Halldor {Laxness}