Dýrin í Saigon

Written during ten months in Vietnam in 2008, the book has an artist trying to get by without language, to break with his own culture and to live like a wise animal. Five beings share his body: the man, a horse who is a poet, a homosexual swan, a gull who speaks only English and a fourteen-year-old girl who is a philosopher. The quintet enjoys life greedily, writing poems and making grand works of art out of itself, in a mix of traditional life writing and fiction that is also an unusual love story.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

228 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Vietnam, 2008

First published

2010 by Mál og menning

Author's age

68 when first published

ISBN

9789979331605 (original)