{"product_id":"under-the-glacierbooks","title":"Under the Glacier","description":"\u003cb\u003eNobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s\u003ci\u003e Under the Glacier \u003c\/i\u003eis a\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eone-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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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\u003cbr\u003e What 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePiling improbability   on top of improbability, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Glacier \u003c\/i\u003eoverflows with comedy both wild and deadpan   as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound.","brand":"Laxness, Halldor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44041242640608,"sku":"","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b132a2c7-7075-4195-95f5-d5709f85aa95.jpg?v=1685891988","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/under-the-glacierbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}