Word: halld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Club's choice for August and, according to the publisher, an "epic in the grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text for a two-part sermon on the sins of capitalistic Iceland and the promised blessings of Marxism (he is a member of Iceland's Communist, or so-called United People...
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