Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, Independent
People is a masterly realist novel evoking in rich detail a family
and a rural community struggling to survive in the starkest of
landscapes. At the same time it is infused with an intense
awareness of Iceland's saga tradition and folklore. Bjartur of
Summerhouses is a hard and sometimes cruel man, but his flinty
determination to achieve independence is both genuinely heroic and
bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude
before managing to purchase an isolated piece of land rumoured to
be cursed, Bjartur wants nothing more than to tend his flocks
unbeholden to any man. But his daughter wants to live unbeholden to
him, and 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. An utterly compelling read.
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