Bankster

Markús works at Landsbanki and his partner Harpa at Kaupþing; he is twenty-eight, she twenty-seven, and the setting is Reykjavík in the winter of 2008-2009. When Markús loses his job he follows a friend's advice and keeps a diary. Soon Harpa is laid off too, but she does not lose heart and quickly finds work as a supply teacher, while Markús buries himself in books and takes refuge in his diary, which turns into a notebook and a literary view of the winter's events and of the future lost with them. Again and again his account circles back to the woman he loves.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

179 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland, 2008–2009

First published

2009 by Ormstunga

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9789979630944 (original)