Independent People, by Halldór Laxness

All the guides and books about Iceland said this is the Icelandic novel, so I bought it when I was there, and finished it now. I liked it very much, and it indeed evokes Iceland in a beatiful way - the harshness of the climate, the independence spirit, their relationship with poetry. It's a sad and harsh story, but it gives one the sense of the indomitable spirit of people in a harsh land.