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Cab 79, 79 af Stöðinni, Indriði G. Thorsteinsson Translated by Quentin Bates

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Label

Cab 79, 79 af Stöðinni, Indriði G. Thorsteinsson Translated by Quentin Bates

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Cab 79

Oclc number

1371112403

Responsibility statement

Indriði G. Thorsteinsson Translated by Quentin Bates

Sub title

79 af Stöðinni

Summary

A young man from the countryside comes to Reykjavik to work as a taxi driver, and strikes up an acquaintaintance with a wealthy young woman. The gulf between their very different backgrounds inevitably leads to a turbulent relationship and to tragedy, against a backdrop of a nation finding its way in a new age. Published only a few years after the Second World War, Indridi G. Thorsteinsson's Cab 79 triggered a storm at the time. It presents an uncompromising snapshot of the swift changes taking place in Icelandic society as this once remote and newly independent country struggled to come to terms with the twentieth century and all the benefits and drawbacks that came with this new age of affluence, leisure, cars, and the presence of foreign troops

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79 af Stöðinni

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