Lesering Book Club - Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Schedule
Wed, 10 Jun, 2026 at 12:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
722 2nd Ave N, Fargo, ND, United States, North Dakota 58102 | Fargo, ND
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Join us in the Viking Room Wednesday, May 13th at Noon (Come at 11:30 for lunch in the Kringen Kafe!) as we discuss our June book, Independent People by Halldor Laxness. From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. • "A strange story, vibrant and alive…. There is a rare beauty in its telling." —Atlantic Monthly
If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
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