Winner of the VISA Cultural Prize and the Icelandic National Literature Prize. Single mother Harpa has always been a misfit. Her physical description is like no other Icelander: so small she self-deprecatingly refers to herself as a dwarf, so dark-skinned she doubts her genetic link to her parents, [...]
Martin Montag, cancer specialist in Berlin, has saved the life of Martin Martinetti and finds in him a soulmate and a friend. Hidden under the surface, both men carry a dark secret from the past. A memory, triggered by an X-ray the shape of a yo-yo, takes Martin Montag back to the traumatic incident[...]