Independent People

Independent People (Sjálfstætt fólk) is an epic novel by Halldór Laxness, published 1934-35. Subjects are poor Icelandic farmers, only freed from debt bondage in the last generation, and surviving the late 1800s/early 1900s, on a croft in the middle of nowhere in inhospitable countryside.

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Epic novel - Halldór Laxness - Iceland - Croft

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An indictment of materialism, the human relationship costs of the 'independent spirit', and perhaps capitalism itself. It helped propel Laxness to win the Nobel prize for literature in 1955.

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Nobel prize for literature - 1955

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