num_pages: 384
description: Hlynur Björn is an unemployed 30-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub. But Hlynur's cosy, unthreatening world is shaken when his mother comes out as a lesbian, and her Spanish girlfriend Lolla moves into their home. 101 Reykjavík is a first-person account of a blackly funny and bizarre love triangle, a dark, comic tale of perverse sexuality and slacker culture in Iceland's trendy capital city that pokes fun along the way at such foibles of our culture as CNN weather reports and porn videos.
language: English
title: 101 Reykjavik
titlecomplete: 101 Reykjavik
genres: Queer, Literary Fiction, Novels, LGBT, Fiction, Humor, Scandinavian Literature, Contemporary, Unfinished, Romance
ratings_count: 1212
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Nordic Council Literature Prize (Nordisk Raads Litteraturpris)
publisher: Faber & Faber