Iceland's Bell (47 page)

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A VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL, OCTOBER 2003

Translation copyright © 2003 by Philip Roughton

Introduction copyright © 2003 by Adam Haslett

Íslandsklukkan
copyright © 1943 by Audur Laxness. Published by
agreement with Licht & Burr Literary Agency, Denmark.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Halldór Laxness, 1902–1998.
 [Íslandsklukkan. English]
Iceland’s bell / Halldór Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by
Philip Roughton; introduction by Adam Haslett.—
1st Vintage International ed.
p. cm.

I. Roughton, Philip. II. Title.
PT7511.L31813 2003
839’.6934—dc21
2003050070

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