Bli Björk

The novel follows the electrician and trade unionist Gudmundur Gunnarsson from the age of ten in 1957, and later his daughter Björk, up to her international breakthrough with the Sugarcubes in 1990. It is not a biography of the singer but a portrait of a person being born and a musician taking shape, and of Iceland over fifty years, its people, culture and nature, modernising in and out of step with the land, with small events woven into large international ones.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

447 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland, 1957–1990

First published

2011 by Samlaget

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9788252178623 (original)