The Atom Station
by Halldór Kiljan Laxness
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Read in November, 2007
A-mazing. Icelandic Beat style meets the native heroic poetic. Favorite quotes (that aren't so odd you'll still understand them):
"That's just like you northerners, to start talking to people," said the cook when I returned to the kitchen.
Rebellion stirred in me and I replied, "I am people."
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"We prised up one of the planks of the lid with a crowbar, and I groped among the packing for the contents; and what did I pull out but a small tin, about 200 gra...more
"That's just like you northerners, to start talking to people," said the cook when I returned to the kitchen.
Rebellion stirred in me and I replied, "I am people."
----
"We prised up one of the planks of the lid with a crowbar, and I groped among the packing for the contents; and what did I pull out but a small tin, about 200 gra...more
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I find it genuinely difficult to read stuff in translation, so maybe that's why I felt so dippy reading this, because it was originally Icelandic. But I love Murakami, so I doubt that's why. He reads like a Scandinavian Irvine Welsh. Not that I've read Welsh.
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I read this after a trip to Iceland. Interesting take on NATO forces in Iceland and on Icelandic humor in general. Laxness won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955
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