Book description
Hugleikur Dagsson is from Iceland.
During the winter in Iceland there are only three hours of daylight.
During the summer in Iceland there is no darkness. Iceland s national
drink is called Black Death . Iceland's national dish is putrefied
shark meat. In Iceland this book is a cult-bestseller.
The questions you should ask yourself is:Should you be laughing at this?
Hugleikur Dagsson's silly little cartoons took the Icelandic
counter-culture scene by storm when they were initially published as
photocopies stapled together by the author himself. Subsequently, the
book has become a best-seller in Iceland - and he has produced a play of
the book which recently won the Best Play of 2005 award in Iceland's
main national newspaper. Hugleikur lives in Reykjavik - and is talk of
the town. He is currently working on a musical.
