false 3431560 1 <p>"Laxness brought the Icelandic novel out from the saga's shadow. . . . To read Laxness is also to understand why he haunts Iceland-he writes the unearthly prose of a poet cased in the perfection of a shell of plot, wit, and clarity."-<i>Guardian</i></p><p>"Laxness is a poet who writes at the edge of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot: He takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in a Waugh-like humor: it is not possible to be unimpressed."-<i>Daily Telegraph</i></p><p>"Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-century literature, a writer of splendid originality, wit, and feeling."-Alice Munro</p><p>Halldr Laxness' first major novel propels Iceland into the modern world. A young poet leaves the physical and cultural confines of Iceland's shores for the jumbled world of post-WWI Europe. His journey leads the reader through a huge range of moral, philosophical, religious, political, and social realms, exploring, as Laxness expressed it, the "far-ranging variety in the life of a soul, with the swings of a pendulum oscillating between angel and devil." Published when Laxness was twenty-five years old, <i>The Great Weaver from Kashmir</i>'s radical experimentation caused a stir in Iceland.</p><p><b>Halldr Laxness </b>is the master of modern Icelandic fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955 for his "vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland."</p><p><b>Philip Roughton</b>'s translations include Laxness' <i>Iceland's Bell</i>, for which he won the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize in 2001.</p> 3472545 1 10 2008 The Great Weaver from Kashmir total:8|5:1|4:1|3:3|2:3| 8 24 33 6 3431560 0979333083 9780979333088 8 6 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3431560.The_Great_Weaver_from_Kashmir 5 0 false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 15:02:20 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 16:09:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3431560 0979333083 9780979333088 8 6 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3431560.The_Great_Weaver_from_Kashmir 2 0 false Tue Oct 06 21:41:57 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 23:04:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3431560 0979333083 9780979333088 8 6 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3431560.The_Great_Weaver_from_Kashmir 0 0 false Tue Sep 22 10:00:18 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 11:09:54 -0700 2009 3431560 0979333083 9780979333088 8 6 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3431560.The_Great_Weaver_from_Kashmir 2 0 false Mon Jun 15 06:31:53 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 09:43:11 -0700 2009 3431560 0979333083 9780979333088 8 6 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3431560.The_Great_Weaver_from_Kashmir 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 30 18:28:09 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 17 19:36:22 -0800 2009 And he understands how an utter ass can be the center of young girl's obsession.]]> 3431560 0979333083 9780979333088 8 6 3.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3431560.The_Great_Weaver_from_Kashmir 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 11:59:01 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 11:48:15 -0700 2008
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