# Under the Glacier

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- Book: [Under the Glacier](https://www.bookquiver.com/halldor-laxness/under-the-glacier) ([Under the Glacier.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/halldor-laxness/under-the-glacier.md))
- Authors: [Halldór Laxness](https://www.bookquiver.com/halldor-laxness)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-761-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2022-02-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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