
LiteraryYoung Adult
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Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night and day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the shortage of coal and the Great War still raging in the outside world, life in the small capital goes on as always. Sixteen-year-old Mani Steinn lives for the movies. Awake, he lives on the fringes of society. Asleep, he dreams in pictures, the threads of his own life weaving through the tapestry of the films he loves. When the Spanish flu epidemic comes ashore, killing hundreds of townspeople and forcing thousands to their sick beds, the shadows that linger at the edges of…
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Editions
2 editions- Paperback · English · 2017FSG Adult · 156 pages · 9780374536923
- Other · English · 2016Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 147 pages · 9780374212438
Teenage boysFictionInfluenza Epidemic, 1918-1919Fiction, historicalIceland, fictionFiction, gayGay men, fictionFiction, coming of age











