false 14265 8 Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness&#8217;s <b>Under the Glacier</b><i> </i>is a<i> </i>one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn?fells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress.<br>What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced &#8220;ooh-a,&#8221; which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept? Piling improbability on top of improbability, <b>Under the Glacier</b><i> </i>overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound. 3019063 book 1968 Under the Glacier total:190|5:38|4:68|3:54|2:25|1:5| 190 679 305 37 2 7 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 08:17:37 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 21:55:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 23 21:38:29 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 19 12:07:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 13:03:30 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 14:46:57 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri May 04 11:56:14 -0700 2007 Fri May 04 12:05:55 -0700 2007
who doesn't judge books by their covers? i was in kramerbooks, soon to be headed to iceland, when this one called to me. i reached past the reds and blues and modern arts for a lovely green book with a title that pulled at my heartstrings. even though it was "o...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 21 05:36:21 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 05:40:51 -0700 2009
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"Following a host of strange rumors, a young man is sent as an emissary of the Bishop of Iceland to inve...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 21:05:56 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 21:12:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 07:45:17 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 07:50:00 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Fri Jun 29 15:32:06 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 15:33:18 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 21:23:25 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 21:47:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 20 17:09:36 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 17:10:25 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 10:14:34 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 10:33:00 -0700 2008 From what I understood of it, a worker for the bishop of Iceland gets assig...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 20 13:42:18 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 12:31:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 11:21:57 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 08:47:18 -0800 2009 This is supposed to be funny?
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