- Icelandic Literary Prize 2004 · Winner
Fólkið í kjallaranum
“The People in the Basement” (title translated by AI)
Auður Jónsdóttir (born 1973)
English editions
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Klara grew up with the permissiveness of hippie parents and had a colourful childhood, but she now lives with a young man on his way up in the world. Certain events lead her to settle accounts with her parents' ideals while she also confronts the values of her own generation, and in the process she discovers new sides of herself and of her own life. The novel takes apart many conventional ideas about life and existence and pushes the reader to take a stand.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 290 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Iceland
- First published
- 2004 by Mál og menning
- Author's age
- 31 when first published
- ISBN
9789979325710 (original)