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...village. In most of his later novels, Laxness seems to be reliving incidents from his own past. In this book, his narrator is a boy named Alfgrirn, who was born near Reykjavik as the 20th century dawned. His mother, a young woman bound for America, had paused in Brek-kukot at the friendly cottage of Bjorn, a fisherman, and there gave birth to her child. Then she went on her way; as the book says in the terse language of the sagas, "she is now out of this story...
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