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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14267.Iceland_s_Bell?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Iceland's Bell" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166585997m/14267.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14267.Iceland_s_Bell?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Iceland's Bell</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8875.Halld_r_Kiljan_Laxness">Halldór Kiljan Laxness</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3496995?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>An excellent mix of history (Denmark's control of Iceland, Copenhagen fire, and the poverty the people of an isolated country) and some of the saddest, funniest and most determined characters Laxness has come up with. My highlights: The man who sells his wife for Brennevin, the man in the prison cell awaiting his death who practices by fitting his head on the chopping block each day and the darkly comic dialogue. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/217512?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>