Summary
Sjon: Moonstone: the boy who never existed
The novel "Moonstone" by the Icelandic writer Sjon won the most prestigious Icelandic literary award and was translated into 19 languages, and in Croatia this is only the second translation of one of Sjon's books (after "The Blue Fox"). This novel tells the story of sixteen-year-old Mani Steinn, a homosexual young man at the end of the First World War, at the time when Iceland gained independence, the Spanish flu arrived in the country, and the country itself experienced the coldest winter in its history. In these challenging and impossible circumstances, Mani hides from the world by going to the cinema every day, but the decision to somehow help the society that has mercilessly rejected him is constantly simmering in him.
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