# Under the Glacier

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- Authors: [Halldór Laxness](https://www.bookquiver.com/halldor-laxness)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2022-02-10
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general

## Description

'Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written' Susan Sontag A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith. The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife. He has also allowed a corpse to be lodged in the glacier. So the rumours go. What he discovers is a community that regards itself as the centre of the world - earthly yet otherworldly, banal yet astonishing. Brimming with humour, mystery, and the supernatural this is a surprising and moving novel from the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN SONTAG

## Editions

### Under the Glacier

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7359-776-1
- Published: 2022-02-10
- Language: en_GB

### Under the Glacier

- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-761-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2022-02-10
- Language: en_GB

### Under the Glacier

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0003-441-3
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2005-03-08
- Language: en_US