Halldór Laxness has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 7 ratings. The most-rated is Independent People.
Independent People
Summary
This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And 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. Having spent 18 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 him. 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, Independent People is a masterpiece.
©1946 Halldór Laxness (P)2017 Tantor
Am Gletscher
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Am Fuße des Snaefellsgletschers im äußersten Westen Islands versieht Pfarrer Jon Primus sein Amt. Doch die Art seiner Seelsorge ist eigen und was dem Bischof davon zu Ohren kommt, gibt Anlass zur Besorgnis: Der Mann repariere die Kirche nicht, taufe die Kinder nicht, beerdige die Toten nicht. Und was hat es mit der Leiche auf sich, die angeblich auf den Gletscher geschafft wurde? All dies soll ein junger Theologe erkunden, der sich als Vertreter des Bischofs in die Abgeschiedenheit des Gletschers begibt. Keine leichte Aufgabe: Er macht skurrile Bekanntschaften, hört sagenhafte Erzählungen und wird in krude Dispute verwickelt. Und er trifft auf eine "Wahrheit", die sich nicht protokollieren lässt.
©1989 Steidl Verlag, Göttingen (P)2011 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg
Salka Valka
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Halldór Laxness (1902-1998) modtog Nobelprisen i 1955 og regnes i dag for Islands største forfatter gennem tiderne. Salka Valka fra 1932 var hans gennembrudsroman og står stadig som hovedværket i hans meget omfattende forfatterskab. Salka Valka ankommer som 11-årig med sin ubemidlede mor til en lille islandsk flække, hvor de hutler sig igennem i fattige kår. Men Salka Valka er en oprører og kæmper sig frem til en position på lige fod med mændene. Vi følger hendes udvikling i den islandske bygd fra hendes barndomsår, hvor Frelsens Hær og fiskeriet dominerer, og hele samfundet styres af den rige købmand, og frem til hendes voksne år, hvor Salka Valka forsøger at finde sin plads i Islands barske natur mellem gammeldags fiskerikultur, religiøs sekterisme, den herskende kapitalisme og den frembrydende socialisme. Please note: This audiobook is in Danish.
©1932 Auður Laxness (P)2013 Bechs Forlag - Viatone
Under the Glacier
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Under the Glacier represents Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness at his entertaining and brilliantly inventive best. Philosophy, theological speculation, and charming wit combine to make this novel a timeless fable of modern times. A youthful emissary of the Bishop of Iceland travels to the beautiful and mysterious district of Snæfellsnes, locally known as "Under Glacier" to investigate the affairs of the parish and its enigmatic pastor. The story is the young man's report to the bishop on the extraordinary events taking place at the foot of Snæfellsnes-Glacier and the remarkable characters he encounters in the course of his investigations. In this strange region, all accepted distinctions between past and present, the mundane and the supernatural, seem at times to vanish.
©1968 Halldor Laxness (P)2011 Audible, Inc.