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I picked this up because many years ago I took a four-day vacation to Iceland, and have been more than averagely interested in the place ever since. I also enjoyed the film made from Helgason's most well-known book (101 Reykjavik), and thus figured this had a good chance of being fairly entertaining. The book is basically a fish-out-water story with heavily farcical elements, mainly in the service of satirizing Iceland. The protagonist and narrator is Tomislav Boksic, a hitman for the Croatian m
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Apr 17, 2013
Laura
marked it as not-for-me
Mar 21, 2018
Janet Whalen
marked it as to-read
