A Parish Chronicle
$15.99
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Halldor Laxness, the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, in this rich, rustic and charming novel.
An intimate, magical novel about one enduring church in a rural Icelandic valley - an ode to a quiet way of life now lost to time forever.
The resting place of legendary Viking warrior Egil Skallagrimsson’s skull, Mosfell Church is a lonely, country church, fated to be destroyed. But as the plans to destroy it take shape, stories, myth and folkl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529985757 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529985757 |
| Author: | Halldór Laxness, Philip Roughton |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 131mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Brief Encounters |
Halldór Laxness
Halldór Laxness (1908-1998) 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.
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