Sjóveikur í München

Having decided to become an artist, a young Icelander goes further: he drops out of art school in Reykjavík and in autumn 1981 starts at the Munich academy. Drawn from the author's own life, the book follows that first winter abroad, lonely, sexually inexperienced and awash in vodka, as he struggles to understand himself, a stay that will set the course of his later life.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

325 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, 1981–1982

First published

2015 by JPV

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789935115607 (original)