{"product_id":"independent-people-2","title":"Independent People","description":"From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. • \"A strange story, vibrant and alive…. There is a rare beauty in its telling.\" —Atlantic Monthly\n\nIf Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.\n\nHaving spent eighteen 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0679767924\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0679767924.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Halldor Laxness|Brad Leithauser\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41537946189882,"sku":"DBV.0679767924.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0679767924-0_59af7e2f-8310-42ea-a4e4-bfd3dc47388d.jpg?v=1784350541","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/independent-people-2","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}