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L'histoire se déroule sur fond de première guerre mondiale et d'indépendance, alors que l'Islande est ravagée par l'influenza. On ressent d'ailleurs l'ampleur terrible de l'épidémie et ses ravages. Le personnage principal est un peu déconnecté mais l'époque dépeinte est extrêmement prenante, et l'on se prends à tourner les pages à toute vitesse.
A short poetic Icelandic novella that's a bit like a fever dream. It's 1918 and our protagonist, a 16 year old gay boy, sleeps with men for money and daily escapes into the 2 cinemas in Reykjavik to avoid society. But then the Spanish Flu is overtaking town and the boy is made to help.
I liked this, but as always with novellas it felt too short to attach to the character/book much. But it had haunting qualities.