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Skáldið Egill Grímsson hefur tekið ákvörðun um að stytta sér aldur. Framkvæmdin vefst þó fyrir honum og í leit að stund og stað ferðast hann á tveimur sólarhringum um líf sitt, land og íslenska samtímamenningu. Yfir öllu vokir kynleg feigð, eins og sveitir jafnt sem sjávarpláss riði til falls, og á köflum er engu líkara en íslenska þjóðin sé vegalaus eftir valdatöku jeppakynslóðarinnar.
Um þetta hrikalega landslag, sem þó er fullt af litríku fólki og spaugilegum uppákomum, ferðast lesandinn með laskaðan áttavita söguhetjunnar sér til halds og trausts. Á leiðinni vakna spurningar um drifkraft manneskjunnar, böndin á milli okkar og sjálfa lífsgleðina.

201 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

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Rúnar Helgi studied English and Icelandic at the University of Iceland and got his BA in 1981. He studied French for a winter at the University of Grenoble, and German at the Goethe Institute in Freiburg the winter after. Rúnar Helgi stayed in Copenhagen for a year before getting his MA in Literary Studies from the University of Iowa in 1987. For the next two years, he continued studying there and also taught. He then moved to Chicago for a year, and then Perth in Australia. Since 1992 Rúnar Helgi has been a part-time teacher at the University of Iceland, as well as writing articles and working on the radio.
His first novel, Ekkert slor (Nothing to Sneer At), came out in 1984. In 1990 his novel Nautnastuldur (Theft of Pleasure) was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize. Rúnar Helgi has also been a prolific translator.

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