The boy had never seen such a device before and examined the leg from every angle until the man took it away from him and hung it from the foot of the bed. However this is a time in which homosexuality is not something that the people of Iceland believe in and so one of his biggest thrills, and of course income, is also one of his biggest dangers.Īfter the boy had crawled in through the window of his hotel room and they had begun to take off their clothes, the man unfastened the artificial leg made of hardwood that was attached with a leather harness to his right thigh. For Mani is a young gay man who is paid for sex, which on the whole he enjoys, both the act and the money. Mani is unaware of all these things going on in the background because as Moonstone begins it is more the day to day dramas that are at the forefront of his mind. Yet aware or not, the people of Reykjavik carry on as normal and we follow one of those people, a young man named Mani. Some it is yet to know will happen, like the craze for film and cinema or something much, much darker that will change the country and its people forever, the Spanish Flu. Some are happening along in the background, such as the Great War. Some it is aware of like the decreasing amount of coal resources, along with the eruption of the Katla volcano.
Iceland is a country that is on the cusp of huge changes.
Moonstone is set in the Reykjavik in 1918. Sceptre, paperback, 2017, fiction, 156 pages, kindly sent by the publisher
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