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Copy Link to Download : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/0375727574 Book Synopsis A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet17s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness.As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in thisnbspextraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf17s ambition drives him onward12and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women12World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.
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A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet17s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness.As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in thisnbspextraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf17s ambition drives him onward12and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women12World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.
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A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic
Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in
rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief
that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and
contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his
sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be
scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years,
Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet17s life of poverty,
loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will
never attain anything like greatness.As imagined by Nobel
Prize winner Halldor Laxness in thisnbspextraordinary novel,
what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine
exaltation. For as Olaf17s ambition drives him onward12and
into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur,
and several susceptible women12World Light demonstrates
how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing
environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.