by Halldór Laxness · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099455158
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In 'The Atom Station', Halldór Laxness presents a social and political satire set in post-war Iceland. The novel tells the story of a young country girl from the north who moves to the south to work as a maid in the house of a Member of Parliament. Through her eyes, Laxness criticizes the bourgeois society of the south, exposing its superficiality and lack of roots in contrast to the solid and traditional culture of the north. The arrival of a NATO airbase serves as a catalyst to explore themes of national identity, politics, and the influence of foreign powers on Icelandic culture.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway.
