Over the past decades, not a single Icelandic novel has been published in Russian! So is there life in Iceland? Or are only the shadows of Haldour Laxness and the characters of the Elder Edda living on this island? The book by the famous Icelandic writer Einar Karason, nominated for the Nordic Council Prize, the Icelandic Literature Prize and translated into several languages, puts an end to all doubts. The main character of the novel, a talented and arrogant drunkard and misanthrope nicknamed Storm, is obsessed with delusions of grandeur. He lives on a loan that he has no intention of paying off, drives around Florida in a limousine; obeying an impulse, he smashes all the computers in the office of his benefactors with a baseball bat. And suddenly Storm unexpectedly turns out to be the author of a huge bestseller, fabricated by a group of “literary blacks.”