Halld r Laxness (Author)
Halld r Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His
first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed
master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding
novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books.
Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.
Susan Sontag (Introducer)
Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death
Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America which won the National Book
Award, 2000. She is also the author of I, etcetera, a collection of
stories; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and five works of
non-fiction, among them On Photography and Illness as Metaphor and
AIDS and Its Metaphors. She died in 2004.
This is a novel of immense charm... It's a book of ideas, like no
other Laxness ever wrote
*Susan Sontag*
Under the Glacier is hilarious, in a deadpan,
northern-edge-of-the-world sort of way
*Salon*
Whimsical... deliriously funny... impishly chaotic
*Kirkus Reviews*
Under the Glacier is a journey to the center of Laxness's antic
imagination, and it is well worth the trip
*The Arts Fuse*
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