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101 Reykjavik is a dark, comic tale of perverse sexuality and slacker culture in Iceland's trendy capital city, a place that more than makes up for its diminutive size with the many pleasures it can offer.Hallgrimur Helgason's unlikely hero is Hlynur Bjorn, an unemployed, thirty-something loner still living on social security in the protected environment of his mum's home. He spends his days surfing the Net, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub, never feeling the urge to venture beyond the confines of his microcosmic world: the postal district of 101 Reykjavik.Determined to resist adulthood at all cost, Hlynur soon discovers that life is busy making other plans for him. His mother comes out as a lesbian, and her girlfriend Lolla moves into their home. Suspicion about his mother's late-found inclinations doesn't help Hlynur with his own identity crisis, not least as he finds himself irresistibly attracted to Lolla. 101 Reykjavik is a first-person account of a blackly funny and bizarre love triangle, a dark, comic tale of perverse sexuality and slacker culture in Iceland's trendy capital city that pokes fun along the way at such foibles of our culture as CNN weather reports and porn videos.