num_pages: 213
description: Born on the day Iceland joined NATO, this novel's unstable narrator worries this and other incidental phenomena into a highly complex, hilarious, and tragic cosmology. More interested in David Bowie and the Beatles than the Nordic sagas that shape the lives of the working-class peoples of Reykjavik, Paul retreats into his own fantastic, schizophrenic, painful world. His madness springs from bits of reality and brighter strikes of insanity. Out-of-work and aimless, tormented by bouts of drinking and ferocious tantrums, Paul walks Reykjavik's streets scaring his family, lusting after women, recounting petty humiliations, and imagining the forces that both guide and haunt him.
language: French
title: Les anges de l'univers
titlecomplete: Les anges de l'univers
genres: Fiction, Scandinavian Literature, Classics, Contemporary, Drama, Literary Fiction, Travel, Literature, Novels, School
ratings_count: 2093
places: Reykjavik (Reykjavík)
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Nordic Council Literature Prize (Nordisk Raads Litteraturpris)
publisher: 10-18