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The Islander: A Biography of Halldór Laxness
by Halldór Guðmundsson, translated by Philip Roughton.
MacLehose, 486 pp., £25, September 2023,978 1 5294 3373 9 Show More
by Halldór Guðmundsson, translated by Philip Roughton.
MacLehose, 486 pp., £25, September 2023,
“... late-stage tourist industry that specialises in taking visitors to bleak and unpopulated places.As Halldór Guðmundsson tells us in his excellent biography of Halldór Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson – he changed his surname to Laxness after the farm where he grew up), things ... ”
