A review by swordofmorality
The Atom Station by Halldór Laxness

5.0

I found this book to be a great introduction into the Icelandic culture and Psyche, and a poignant commentary of the tensions between urban and rural living. "Unfortunately, peace and tranquillity are only a poem to be recited in cities, the poem of country folk who have straggled into the town's through lack of money and there been affected by the great world bacterium"