David Mitchell A work of miniaturist perfection: a brief, brilliant jewel of a book in which each paragraph is precision-cut, each sentence burnished. Vibrant and visceral, briskly paced but meditative, unsettling yet droll and flecked with beauty, it is a pitch-perfect study of transgression, survival and love. Hari Kunzru Guardian MOONSTONE is Sjon's slim, simmering masterpiece. The result is sure to delight his fans and convert many new ones. with a gentleness of spirit, an affection for precision and the small scale. Sjon's prose is never histrionic or overwrought, balancing rage and hallucination. For M ni Steinn, the question is whether, at Reykjavik's darkest hour, he should retreat all the way into this imaginary world, or if he should engage with the society that has so soundly rejected him. And yet the outside world has also brought Icelanders cinema And there's nothing like a dark, silent room with a film from Europe flickering on the screen to help you escape from the overwhelming threats-and adventures-of the night, to transport you, to make you feel like everything is going to be all right.

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. M ni 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 Sj n's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sj n's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. Author(s): Sjon Victoria Cribb (Translator)

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