{"product_id":"1400034418-under_the_glacier","title":"Under the Glacier","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eNobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s \u003cb\u003eUnder the Glacier\u003c\/b\u003e is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snæfells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress.\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced “ooh-a,” which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept? Piling improbability on top of improbability, \u003cb\u003eUnder the Glacier\u003c\/b\u003e overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHumor \u0026amp; Satire\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eHumorous\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Used - Poor","offer_id":47617235321022,"sku":"1400034418-6","price":13.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/81pfmPq2DbL.jpg?v=1781010371","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1400034418-under_the_glacier","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}