Also by HALLDÓR LAXNESS
Independent People
Paradise Reclaimed
World Light
A VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL, OCTOBER 2003
Translation copyright © 2003 by Philip Roughton
Introduction copyright © 2003 by Adam Haslett
Íslandsklukkan
copyright © 1943 by Audur Laxness. Published by
agreement with Licht & Burr Literary Agency, Denmark.
Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage International and
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Halldór Laxness, 1902–1998.
[Íslandsklukkan. English]
Iceland’s bell / Halldór Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by
Philip Roughton; introduction by Adam Haslett.—
1st Vintage International ed.
p. cm.
I. Roughton, Philip. II. Title.
PT7511.L31813 2003
839’.6934—dc21
2003050070
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