Description
In Reykjavik in 1918, as Katla’s ash-black skies and the Great War’s far-reaching pressures darken everyday life, sixteen-year-old Mani Steinn escapes into the movies—living on society’s margins and dreaming in moving images. When the Spanish flu arrives and the town is thrown into fear and mourning, Mani’s carefully held distance from reality begins to fracture, and the boundary between what he imagines and what he must face grows dangerously thin. Blending saga-like atmosphere with the hypnotic logic of cinema, this novel follows Mani as secrets surface, identities shift, and a misfit is forced to reconsider his place in a world where life and death, truth and illusion, and memory and invention collide. With Sjón’s lyrical, myth-tinged storytelling, the book captures a pivotal moment when Iceland’s old narrative spirit meets the modern dream of film—sweeping a small capital into the turbulence of global history.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Jan 1, 2016
147 pages
ISBN: 9780374212438
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Moonstone by Sjón.