Set in Reykjavik in the fifties, this highly colourful family saga describes in a very lively and humorous way the immense change in Iceland, when a simple rural culture of farmers and fishermen clashed with the American mass culture.

A motion picture based on these novels received an award for the best Nordic film in 1997.

“He is an Icelandic Erskine Caldwell or William Faulkner
– Karason is a genial storyteller, and has already won himself a
place in the literary history of Iceland and the Nordic countries.”
BOKEN MAGAZINE, BO AXELSSON