Paradise Reclaimed

Name: Paradise Reclaimed
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ISBN: 9780375727580

ISBN-10: 0375727582

ISBN-13: 9780375727580

Edition: 2002

Authors: Halldor Laxness, Jane Smiley, Halldor Laxness

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IAn idealistic Icelandic farmer journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise in this captivating novel by Nobel Prize—winner Halldor Laxness. The quixotic hero of this long-lost classic is Steinar of Hlidar, a generous but very poor man who lives peacefully on a tiny farm in nineteenth-century Iceland with his wife and two adoring young children. But when he impulsively offers his children's beloved pure-white pony to the visiting King of Denmark, he sets in motion a chain of disastrous events that leaves his family in ruins and himself at the other end of the earth, optimistically building a home for them among the devout polygamists in the Promised Land of Utah. By the time the…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/2/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.95" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



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Introduction




The wonder pony



Great men covet the pony



Romanticism comes to Iceland



The pony and fate



The sacred lava violated



The millennial celebrations. Icelanders reap justice



Church-going



Secret in mahogany



Steinar leaves, with the secret



Concerning horse-copers



Money on the window-sill



The sweetheart



Of emperors and kings



Business matters



A baby in spring



The authorities, the clergy, and the soul



Water in Denmark



Visiting the Bishop's House



God's City of Zion



Learning to understand bricks



Good coffee



Good and bad doctrines



Delivering a packet of needles



The girl



Travel episode



Clementine



One minute



Good broth



Polygamy or death



Ending


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