Moonstone
Subtitle: the boy who never was
By: Sjón ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
Contributors: Cribb, Victoria, translator
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780374212438
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Teenage boys; Fiction; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
Work titles: Mánasteinn: drengurinn sem aldrei var til
Description: 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 Mani 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 Mani 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.
Notes: "a novel" -- book jacket.

Translation from the Icelandic of: Mánasteinn: drengurinn sem aldrei var til.

translated from the Icelandic.