Paradise Reclaimed

From the Nobel Prize winner comes a captivating novel about an idealistic Icelandic farmer who journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise. - "Full of an earthy poetry...a style wonderfully wise and entirely Scandinavian in its combination of magic and reality." --The New York Times Book Review - With an introduction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres.

The quixotic hero of this long-lost classic is Steinar of Hlidar, a generous but very poor man who lives peacefully on a tiny farm in nineteenth-century Iceland with his wife and two adoring young children. But when he impulsively offers his children's beloved pure-white pony to the visiting King of Denmark, he sets in motion a chain of disastrous events that leaves his family in ruins and himself at the other end of the earth, optimistically building a home for