Apr 02, 2002 | ISBN 9780375727580
“Laxness has genuine magic as a novelist.”–New York Herald Tribune
"Full of an earthy poetry . . . a style wonderfully wise and entirely Scandinavian in its combination of magic and reality." —The New York Times Book Review
"The qualities of the sagas pervade his writing, and particularly a kind of humor–oblique, stylized and childlike–that can be found in no other contemporary writer." —Atlantic
