{"product_id":"independent-people","title":"Independent People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel--\"funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant\" (Annie Proulx)--at last available to contemporary American readers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in the early twentieth century, \u003ci\u003eIndependent People\u003c\/i\u003e recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaving spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to \u003ci\u003ehim\u003c\/i\u003e. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, \u003ci\u003eIndependent People\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece.","brand":"Halldor Laxness","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45754942292195,"sku":"9780679767923","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/files\/9780679767923-us.jpg?v=1732745754","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/independent-people","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}