Jón Kalman Stefánsson: Yellow Submarine (detail)

In August 2022, Paul McCartney rests in the shade of a tree in a park in London. Nearby, a writer very similar to Jón Kalman Stefánsson wonders how to address the hero of his childhood. Before the big moment, he must take stock of his memories and unravel the thick knots of his life story, because the legendary musician needs to know what a gap formed in him when he lost his mother at the age of seven and soon after the Beatles broke up. The nov…