101 Reykjavik (1996)
101 Reykjavik (1996)
Hlynur Bjorn 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.
The book was turned into a successful movie in the year 2000, directed by Baltasar Kormakur and starring Hilmir Snaer Gudnason and Victoria Abril.
Reviews
THE GUARDIAN
LA REPUBLICA
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
TIM SANDLIN, AMERICAN NOVELIST
NORDIC LITERATURE 2001
TURUN PÄIVÄLEHTI, FINLAND
VENERDI, SUPPLEMENT TO LA REPUBLICA
WILL HEATH, BOOKSANDBAO.COM
SYDSVENSKA DAGBLADET, SWEDEN
Awards
Nominated
- Nordic Council Literature Prize 1999
