{"product_id":"under-the-glacier-9781400034413","title":"Under the Glacier","description":"\u003cb\u003eNobel laureate Halldór Laxness's\u003ci\u003e Under the Glacier \u003c\/i\u003eis a\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eone-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn fells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced \"ooh-a,\" which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePiling improbability on top of improbability, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Glacier \u003c\/i\u003eoverflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHalldór Laxness\u003c\/b\u003e was born near Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction, and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he wrote more than sixty books, including novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays, and memoirs. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Laxness died in 1998.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649950486802,"sku":"9781400034413","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_15051917-798a-49e1-bf9a-292f23d236f5.jpg?v=1733278414","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/under-the-glacier-9781400034413","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}