Under the Glacier by Halldor Laxness Paperback Book 9781784877613

Wildly original morose uproarious It is also one of the funniest books ever written Susan SontagA naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife He has also allowed a corpse to be lodged in the glacier So the rumours goWhat he discovers is a community that regards itself as the centre of the world earthly yet otherworldly banal yet astonishing Brimming with humour mystery and the supernatural this is a surprising and moving novel from the Nobel Prizewinning Icelandic authorWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN SONTAG