by Halldór Laxness · Orbis · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475301341
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«Paraíso reclamado» is the novel by Halldór Laxness published by Orbis in paperback (268 pages, in Spanish).
An Icelandic farmer recently converted to Mormonism crosses the Atlantic to settle in North America, where the faithful hope to build their paradise. Laxness combines irony and compassion in narrating the rural poverty, faith and uprootedness of his protagonist, Steinar Steinsson, in nineteenth-century Iceland.
Halldór Laxness received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955. This edition was published in 1982, with a translation by Rodolfo Arévalo.
For readers of classic fiction and Nordic literature interested in stories of faith, emigration and cultural clash.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway.
