The Great Weaver From Kashmir

Author  Halldor Laxness Translated by  Philip Roughton
The Great Weaver From Kashmir

From Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness

“Laxness brought the Icelandic novel out from the ‘sagas' shadow…to read Laxness is also to understand why he haunts Iceland—he writes the unearthly prose of a poet cased in the perfection of a shell of plot, wit, and clarity.”  — The Guardian

“Finally, finally, an imposing work of fiction, which rises like a cliff from the flatness of Icelandic poetry and fiction of recent years!”  —Kristján Albertsson, Vaka 1927

The Great Weaver from Kashmir is Laxness’ first major novel, the book that propelled Icelandic literature into the modern world. Shortly after World War One, Steinn Elliði, a young philosopher-poet dandy, leaves the physical and cultural confines…