Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

Reykjavik in 1918. Katla volcano threatens to interrupt, and the Spanish flu is on the horizon. Yet, amidst these turbulent times, a quiet yet powerful story unfolds—one that centers on the life of a queer boy named Máni Steinn, who often escapes into an imaginary world of the cinema.

 

Details:

• author: Sjón
• full title: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
  
• genre: literary fiction
  
• format/type: bookfiction
• topics: #Iceland #cinema, #spanishflu, #lgbt, #queer
  
• publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  
• publish date: August 2, 2016
• pages: 142
  

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙💙

 

About the Author: 

 

Sjón (Sigurjón B. Sigurðsson) was born in Reykjavik on the 27th of August, 1962. He started his writing career early, publishing his first book of poetry, Sýnir (Visions), in 1978. Sjón was a founding member of the surrealist group, Medúsa, and soon became significant in Reykjavik's cultural landscape.

Since then, his prolific writing drove him to pen song lyrics, scripts for movies and of course novels such as The Blue Fox