Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023

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WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023

Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize

'An extraordinary and original writer' A.S. Byatt on Sjón


Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night and day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the shortage of coal and the Great War still raging in the outside world, life in the small capital goes on as always.

Sixteen-year-old Máni Steinn lives for the movies. Awake, he lives on the fringes of society. Asleep, he dreams in pictures, the threads of his own life weaving through the tapestry of the films he loves.

When the Spanish flu epidemic comes ashore, killing hundreds of townspeople and forcing thousands to their sick beds, the shadows that linger at the edges of existence grow darker and Máni is forced to re-evaluate both the society around him and his role in it.

Evoking the moment when Iceland's saga culture met the new narrative form of the cinema and when the isolated island became swept up in global events, this is the story of a misfit transformed by his experiences in a world where life and death, reality and imagination, secrets and revelations jostle for dominance.

'Moonstone is Sjón's slim, simmering masterpiece . . . it is a pitch-perfect study of transgression, survival and love' David Mitchell

GENRE
Belletristik und Literatur
ERSCHIENEN
2016
2. Juni
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
160
Seiten
VERLAG
Hodder & Stoughton
GRÖSSE
2,7
 MB

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