The Atom Station
$24.62
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2022
Summary
Laxness has been hailed as Iceland’s John Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair combined. His is a significant voice in world literature.
When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country. Narrated by a country girl from the north, the novel follows her experiences after she takes up employment as a maid in the house of her Member of Parliament. Her observations and e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099455158 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099455153 |
| Author: | Halldór Laxness |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
[Laxness’] voice has a very funny peculiar, refreshing and intriguing mix of comic irony and metaphysical angst
Keynote/Publisher’ s Comment’ Laxness has been hailed as Iceland’ s John Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair combined. His is a significant voice in world literature’ Magnus Magnusson
About The Author
Halldór Laxness
Halldór Laxness (1902-1998) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.
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