A review by acrasie
The Atom Station by Halldór Laxness

4.0

A post-WWII look at Iceland as a young woman from the north goes down south to the capitol Reykjavik and becomes the maid in her MP's home while the country struggles with the idea of nuclear war and the leasing of land to NATO for an airbase (One I lived on in the 90s). This book is so Icelandic that it's kind of hard for me to articulate what I mean when I say that. It's just right. It has the right level of mythology, mysticism, reality, satire, humor, seriousness and debate over religion, morality, and ethics that it's just. Icelandic. Great book.