{"product_id":"tomas-jonsson-bestseller-book-gudberger-bergsson-9781940953601","title":"Tomas Jonsson, Bestseller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Guðbergur Bergsson achieved success with his novel \u003ci\u003eTómas Jónsson, Bestseller\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Kristjánsdóttir\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA retired, senile bank clerk confined to his basement apartment, Tómas Jónsson 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, Tómas 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 relevant today in our memoir-obsessed society as it was when the novel was first published.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsidered by many to be the 'Icelandic \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e' for its wordplay, neologisms, structural upheaval, and reinvention of what's possible in Icelandic writing, \u003ci\u003eTómas Jónsson, Bestseller\u003c\/i\u003e was a bestseller, heralding a new age of Icelandic literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuðbergur Bergsson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of twenty-one books, from novels to children's literature, and a translator from Spanish into Icelandic. He has received the Icelandic Literary Prize and the Nordic Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLytton Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe All-Purpose Magical Tent\u003c\/i\u003e, and has translated works from Bragi Ólafsson, Jón Gnarr, and Kristin Ómarsdóttir, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50406609715473,"sku":"GOR013935598","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50765224542481,"sku":"CIN194095360XG","price":4.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51052643483921,"sku":"NIN9781940953601","price":17.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332105044241,"sku":"CIN194095360XVG","price":6.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52072303624465,"sku":"GOR010287188","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/194095360X.jpg?v=1770891969","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/tomas-jonsson-bestseller-book-gudberger-bergsson-9781940953601","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}