The Atom Station

Name: The Atom Station
Brand: Laxness, Halldór
SKU: PR-9780099455158
Price: 6.47 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 3.7 (13 reviews)

3.7

(13)

Le Pitch

Présentation de l'éditeur 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. Revue de presse [Laxness’] voice has a very funny peculiar, refreshing and intriguing mix of comic irony and metaphysical angst -- Marina Warner ― Observer Laxness is a poet who writes to the edges of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot. ― Daily Telegraph An extraordinary book, brimming with little wisdoms, funny episodes, sharp phrases...and a determined optimism of spirit ― The Times Laxness was a genius ― New York Review of Books Magnus Magnusson's translation reads smoothly and skilfully renders Laxness's dry and quirky wit ― Times Literary Supplement Biographie de l'auteur 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. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

The Atom Station

3.7

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Le Pitch

Présentation de l'éditeur 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. Revue de presse [Laxness’] voice has a very funny peculiar, refreshing and intriguing mix of comic irony and metaphysical angst -- Marina Warner ― Observer Laxness is a poet who writes to the edges of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot. ― Daily Telegraph An extraordinary book, brimming with little wisdoms, funny episodes, sharp phrases...and a determined optimism of spirit ― The Times Laxness was a genius ― New York Review of Books Magnus Magnusson's translation reads smoothly and skilfully renders Laxness's dry and quirky wit ― Times Literary Supplement Biographie de l'auteur 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. Afficher moinsAfficher plus