Lit in Translation

Fólkið í kjallaranum

“The People in the Basement” (title translated by AI)

Auður Jónsdóttir (born 1973)

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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)