![]() ![]() ![]() SJÓN: For many years I had been collecting material about the three elements that form the backdrop to the story of Máni Steinn – the Spanish Influenza epidemic which reached Iceland in the autumn of 1918, Icelanders’ interest in films right from the birth of cinematography, and the history of homosexual people in the microcosm that is Reykjavík – but I could never see a way to make use of it, neither in combination nor individually. In your new novel Mánasteinn – Drengurinn sem aldrei var til (Moonstone – The Boy Who Never Was) a variety of threads are traced, disparate threads that nevertheless knit really well together in this unique story. ![]() A short interview with Sjón about his latest novel ![]()
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