Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller

✍ Scribed by Bergsson, Guðberger

• Book ID: 109982501
• Publisher: Open Letter
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 806 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781940953618

✦ Synopsis

"Guðbergur Bergsson achieved success with his novel T omas Jonsson, Bestseller, which shocked Icelandic readers in innumerable ways, lashing out as it does at the Icelandic society of the post-war years for its cultural confusion, amorality, and hypocrisy. The main character is a grumpy old man who speaks and writes in various styles, grumbles and babbles and criticizes everything."--Dagný Kristjansdottir

A retired, senile bank clerk confined to his basement apartment, Tomas Jonsson decides that, since memoirs are all the rage, he's going to write his own--a sure bestseller--that will also right the wrongs of contemporary Icelandic society. Egoistic, cranky, and digressive, Tomas blasts away while relating pick-up techniques, meditations on chamber pot use, ways to assign monetary value to noise pollution, and much more. His rants parody and subvert the idea of the memoir--something that's as...