Mosfellsbær · 1935 · citedIndependent People
Halldór Laxness
A sheep farmer's war of attrition with the land itself, set on a haunted croft on the open moor. The farm is invented, so the map anchors it in the countryside Laxness knew as a boy, the Mosfellsdalur valley and the Mosfellsheiði heath east of Reykjavík, and runs out to the capital and the coastal market town that pull his family away from the moor.
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