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The Atom Station (Icelandic: Atómstöðin) is a novel by Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955. The initial print run sold out on the day it was published, for the first time in Icelandic history.
- Halldór Laxness
- 276 (1948 first edition)
- 1948
- 21 March 1948
2 de jul. de 2020 · Language. English. 202 pages ; 23 cm. "Laxness describes the popular reaction to an attempt by the U.S. to buy land for a nuclear base near Reykjavik. He contrasts corruption and decadence in the capital with the simple life of peasants in the north ...
Halldór Laxness, Magnus Magnusson (Translator) 3.53. 1,363 ratings146 reviews. Ugla, an unrefined girl from the countryside, moves from an outlying area of Northern Iceland to the capital city of Reykjavík in order to work for Búi Árland, a member of parliament, and to learn how to play the organ.
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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 experiences expose the bourgeois society of the south as rootless and shallow and in stark contrast to the age-old culture of the solid and less fanciful north.
9 de jun. de 2015 · The Atom Station. Halldór Laxness. Open Road Media, Jun 9, 2015 - Fiction - 202 pages. From the Nobel Prize–winning author of Independent People: A biting satire of post-WWII Iceland caught...
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- Halldór Laxness
- Open Road Media, 2015
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The Atom Station is the work of someone who has seen every cherished dream sold down the river, but who loves humanity too much to despair. His heroine refuses to be bullied or bought, a feminist before her time, full of curiosity and spirit. Michael Faber, Guardian. Read more. Details.
