Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was (häftad)
Format
Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
160
Utgivningsdatum
2017-02-09
Förlag
Hodder & Stoughton
Översättare
Victoria Cribb
Originalspråk
Isländska
Dimensioner
201 x 134 x 12 mm
Vikt
154 g
ISBN
9781473613157

Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023

av Sjón, Sjon
Häftad,  Engelska, 2017-02-09
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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.
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Born in Reykjavík in 1962, Sjón is the author of the novels The Blue Fox, The Whispering Muse, From the Mouth of the Whale, Moonstone and CoDex 1962, for which he has won several awards including the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literary Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and his work has been translated into thirty-five languages. In addition, Sjón has written nine poetry collections as well as four opera librettos and lyrics for various artists. He lives in Reykjavík, Iceland.