Paradise Reclaimed

"PARADISE RECLAIMED is rooted among the bleak realities common to Laxness's novels of the Thirties: the rural isolation of struggling Icelandic farmers; generations of grinding poverty; a sense of lawlessness....Yet nothing too calamitous can unfold in a literary atmosphere as poised and benign as that of PARADISE RECLAIMED. The overriding tone is a beguiling hybrid of the medieval Saga...and the classic fairy tale....In devoting so many of its pages to foreign countries, PARADISE RECLAIMED is an unusual book in Laxness's oeuvre. All the more fitting, then, that it serves as one of his most touching tributes to his homeland's inhospitable, inviting terrain."Laxness, Halldor Kiljan is the author of 'Paradise Reclaimed', published 2002 under ISBN 9780375727580 and ISBN 0375727582.