101 Reykjavik - Softcover

Helgason, Hallgrimur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571209769 ISBN 13: 9780571209767

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2002

Synopsis

Hlynur Bjoern is an unemployed 30-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub. But Hlynur's cosy, unthreatening world is shaken when his mother comes out as a lesbian, and her Spanish girlfriend Lolla moves into their home. 101 Reykjavik is a first-person account of a blackly funny and bizarre love triangle, a dark, comic tale of perverse sexuality and slacker culture in Iceland's trendy capital city that pokes fun along the way at such foibles of our culture as CNN weather reports and porn videos.

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Review:

Julie Myerson "The Guardian" This lusciously deadpan narrative is infused with a wild, anarchic take on the world that is caustically, worryingly truthful.

Synopsis:

A dark, comic tale of perverse sexuality and slacker culture in Iceland's trendy capital city. Hlynur Bjorn is an unemployed thirty-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub. But Hlynur's cosy, unthreatening world is shaken when his mother comes out as a lesbian, and her Spanish girlfriend Lolla moves into their home. 101 Reykjavik is a first-person account of a blackly funny and bizarre love triangle, poking fun along the way at such foibles of our culture as CNN weather reports and porn videos.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0571209769
• ISBN 13: 9780571209767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384