Wayward Heroes by Halldór Laxness

Wayward Heroes

Halldór Laxness with Philip Roughton

472 pages first pub 1952 (editions)

fiction historical adventurous reflective slow-paced
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Published in 1952, Wayward Heroes is part of the body of works for which Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1955. It is a masterfully written tragicomedy about the oath-brothers Thorgeir and Thormod, inspired by the old Icelandic sagas Saga of...

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