Rokland

Böddi Steingríms returns home to Sauðárkrókur after ten years of study in Germany and starts teaching at the local college. But the town is too small for such an outspoken man, and he is dismissed after shocking his students on a weekend trip by making them sleep in Grettir's cave, so they can live the saga. A man of the spirit in a realm of materialism, Böddi vents on his blog, aiming at modern society as a whole, and one fine day he declares war on it: a lonely rebel too clever for his town, too angry for Reykjavík and too honest for Iceland.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

391 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland

First published

2005 by Mál og menning

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9789979326915 (original)