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The Atom Station

Halldór Laxness

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1948
Originally in
Originally in Icelandic
Pages
Pages 190

The country is for sale, and a girl from the north has come to the capital to cook for one of the men selling it. Ugla grew up on a remote sheep farm; in Reykjavík she scrubs the floors of a member of parliament while the government quietly bargains away a corner of Iceland to the Americans for an atomic base.

Tristram and Isolde are dead. They died in Buchenwald.
The Atom Station, Halldór Laxness

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