
A Parish Chronicle
Halldor Laxness, Philip Roughton
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Paperback / Softback
£9.99
Description
An intimate, magical novel about one enduring church in a rural Icelandic valley – an ode to a quiet way of life now lost to time forever
The resting place of legendary Viking warrior Egil Skallagrimsson’s skull, Mosfell Church is a lonely, country church, fated to be destroyed. But as the plans to destroy it take shape, stories, myth and folklore abound in one magical last attempt to leave Mosfell standing.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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