Name: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was: Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023
SKU: 9781473613157
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Weight	0.15 kg
Dimensions	2 × 12.8 × 19.6 cm
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	1473613159
About The Author	Born in Reykjavík in 1962, Sjón is the author of the novels The Blue Fox, The Whispering Muse, From the Mouth of the Whale, Moonstone and CoDex 1962, for which he has won several awards including the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literary Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and his work has been translated into thirty-five languages.In addition, Sjón has written nine poetry collections as well as four opera librettos and lyrics for various artists. He lives in Reykjavík, Iceland.
	Sjón's prose is never histrionic or overwrought, balancing rage and hallucination . . . with a gentleness of spirit, an affection for precision and the small scale. The result is sure to delight his fans and convert many new ones.
Other text	The mesmerising new novel by Iceland's internationally renowned writer Sjón – 'the trickster that makes the world, and he is achingly brilliant' Junot Díaz, 'an extraordinary and original writer' A.S. Byatt.