My Yellow Submarine (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Jón Kalman Stefánsson's most personal novel to date. Spanning several timelines and disparate locations, My Yellow Submarine is a portrait of an Icelandic writer as a young boy and an unpredictable joyride in which the incredible and the mundane, tragedy and comedy, and joy and death, walk arm in arm. You might want to fasten your seatbelt.

August 2022. In a London park, a middle-aged writer from Iceland sits a short distance from Paul McCartney. The writer has important business with the former Beatle, but has trouble putting it into words, so he waits, trying to get it right - and while waiting, his past flows through him.

A mother plays 'Yellow Submarine' on the harmonica to her seven-year-old son. She dies and leaves a void. A few months later, The Beatles split up. Another great loss in the boy's life. A distant father doesn't make things easier. Only when the boy starts borrowing books from the library does he understand the direction his life should take.

An unexpected, often surreal bildungsroman, My Yellow Submarine is a masterful and life-affirming novel about a young boy in the 1970s and '80s Iceland, linked with the Epic of Gilgamesh, The Beatles, and the Old Testament, as he attempts to make sense of his mother's death.