{"product_id":"world-light-9780375727573","title":"World Light","description":"\u003cb\u003eA magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet's life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this extraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf's ambition drives him onward--and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women--\u003ci\u003eWorld Light\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375727573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.16w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2002 pg. 1504\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2002 pg. 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2002\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Halldor Laxness","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43132800794805,"sku":"9780375727573","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d8a5c570-4fc8-4c6e-83fc-f2c8298616fc.jpg?v=1695134255","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/world-light-9780375727573","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}