A Parish Chronicle
Halldór Laxness author Philip Roughton translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Jul '26
Should be back in stock very soon

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Halldor Laxness, the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, in this rich, rustic and charming novel.
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 Skallagrímsson’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.
** The perfect stocking filler for short fiction readers**
ISBN: 9781529985757
Dimensions: 199mm x 131mm x 10mm
Weight: 110g
128 pages