- Icelandic Literary Prize 2019 · Shortlist
Staða pundsins
“The State of the Pound” (title translated by AI)
Bragi Ólafsson (born 1962)
English editions
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A widow in her mid-thirties, Madda, travels with her music-mad teenage son Sigurvin to England in 1976, when records cost far more at home. They are visiting a friend of her dead husband who lives with rebellious artists and anarchists on a farm south of London. It becomes the story of a mother and son that could begin only once the father was gone.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 271 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Iceland, United Kingdom, 1976
- First published
- 2019 by Bjartur
- Author's age
- 57 when first published
- ISBN
9789935500540 (original)