And if the flu doesn't do it, there's always the threat that war will spread all the way north. His city, Reykjavik in 1918, is homogeneous and isolated and seems entirely defenseless against the Spanish flu, which has already torn through Europe, Asia, and North America and is now lapping up on Iceland's shores. Máni Steinn is queer in a society in which the idea of homosexuality is beyond the furthest extreme. It is the story of a young man on the fringes of a society that is itself at the fringes of the world-at what seems like history's most tumultuous, perhaps ultimate moment. But it is also Sjón's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjón's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception.
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