{"product_id":"independent-people","title":"Independent People","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\" --\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaving 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 \u003ci\u003ehim\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eIndependent People\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece.","brand":"Halldor Laxness","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52091888107821,"sku":"BS-8XD-767923","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/independent-people-6772336.jpg?v=1780161128","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/independent-people","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}