The Atom Station: Halldor Laxness - Softcover

Laxness, Halldór

 
9780099455158: The Atom Station: Halldor Laxness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099455153 ISBN 13: 9780099455158
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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 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.

'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' Guardian

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Halldór Laxness (1908-98) 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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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.

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099455153
ISBN 13 
9780099455158
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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