![]() ![]() ![]() The flu changes everything – the place, people, their lives, dimming the line between reality and delirium. He loves the movies and well what he does for a living is something you will find out as you read the book. Mani has two loves of his life – Sola G and the movies. The volcano Katla has erupted and can be seen colouring the sky night and day from the streets of Reykjavik where the boy lives. He lives with his great-grandmother’s sister. The book is about Mani Steinn (this is where Moonstone comes from – but again how it appears in the book is heartbreaking) – a 16-year old waif who is an enigmatic character. It is a book set in 1918 and in Iceland – of course given the author is from there. ![]() It is about cinema- about the small things that make everything else seem so big and grand. It is about struggle and the will to live against all odds and do what one must do anyway. ![]() It is the kind of book that doesn’t let you be till you are done with it. Let me tell you at the very onset that “Moonstone” will for sure be one of the top 10 books I would have read this year. I wanted to find out for myself what the whole fuss was about this writer and his style. My eye rested on this one, because I had heard a lot about the author’s previous book “The Whispering Muse”. “Moonstone – the Boy who Never was” by Sjón (pronounced Shawn) came to me in a boxful of other books. ![]()
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