- Icelandic Literary Prize 2013 · Winner
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
Mánasteinn
Sjón (born 1962)
Translated by Victoria Cribb
English editions
In EnglishMoonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · 1 August 2017 · Paperback · 156 pages
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · 2 August 2016 · Hardcover · 160 pages
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
Sceptre · United Kingdom · 9 February 2017 · Paperback
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Máni Steinn, a teenage outsider in 1918 Reykjavík, escapes into the cinema and replays the films in his dreams with his own life stitched into them. Around him the town carries on through the Katla eruption, fuel shortages and the run-up to sovereignty, until the Spanish flu sweeps in, filling sickbeds and killing hundreds, and the line between life and death, fact and fantasy grows thin.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 132 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Iceland, 1918
- First published
- 2013 by JPV
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
9789935113924 (original)
9780374212438 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9781473613157 (Sceptre, United Kingdom)
9780374536923 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
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