5/15/2023 0 Comments Moonstone by sjónWhen 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 existence grow darker and Mani is forced to re-evaluate both the society around him and his role in it. Asleep, he dreams in pictures, the threads of his own life weaving through the tapestry of the films he loves. Awake, he lives on the fringes of society. Sixteen-year-old Mani Steinn lives for the movies. 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. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night and day.
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