"One of the world's most unusual, skilled and visionary novelists." -Jane Smiley
"Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-century literature, a writer of splendid originality, wit, and feeling." -Alice Munro
"The qualities of the sagas pervade his writing, and particularly a kind of humor-oblique, stylized and childlike-that can be found in no other contemporary writer." -
The Atlantic Monthly "One of the world's most unusual, skilled and visionary novelists." -Jane Smiley
"A marvelous novel about the most ambitious questionsÉ. It is also one of the funniest books ever written.: –Susan Sontag, from the Introduction
"The qualities of the sagas pervade his writing, and particularly a kind of humor-oblique, stylized and childlike-that can be found in no other contemporary writer." -
The Atlantic Monthly "Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-century literature, a writer of splendid originality, wit, and feeling." -Alice Munro