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The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjon's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is not any exception. But it is also Sjon's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It's the story of a man on the fringes of the society that is itself at the fringes of the world - at what appears like history's most tumultuous, perhaps ultimate moment. Mani Steinn is queer in a society in which the idea of homosexuality is beyond the furthest extreme. His city, Reykjavik in 1918, is homogeneous and isolated and seems entirely defenseless contrary to the Spanish flu, which has already torn through Europe, Asia, and North America and is currently lapping through to Iceland's shores. Of course, if the flu doesn't do it, almost always there is the threat that war will spread all the way north. 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 time, to move you, to cause you to feel just like everything is going to be all right. For Mani Steinn, the question is whether, at Reykjavik's darkest hour, he should retreat all the way into this imaginary world or if he should build relationships the society that has so soundly rejected him.
