Bergur Ebbi hosts a party to celebrate new book

Bergur Ebbi welcomed a crowd of familiar faces to Forlagið bookstore at Fiskislóð in Reykjavík to celebrate the publication of his new book, The Age of Imagination.

Among the guests were comedian Dóri DNA, journalist Birta Björnsdóttir, broadcaster Gísli Marteinn Baldursson, businessman Reynir Grétarsson, producer and director Allan Sigurðarson, comedian Jakob Birgisson, political science professor Eiríkur Bergmann and Sveinn Logi Sölvason, chief executive of Embla Medical.

In the book, Bergur Ebbi writes about the present day, artificial intelligence, loss and times that have disappeared. He takes readers on an intellectual journey through modern life and into the future. Artificial intelligence is one of the book’s broadest subjects, but the article says he succeeds in presenting it through an engaging narrative.

The strongest chapters are described as those in which he goes deeper into his family, telling stories about his parents and brother and recalling moments in a comic form. Beneath the humor, however, lies intense grief. Bergur Ebbi lost his brother, who was three years older, several years ago.

The Age of Imagination is Bergur Ebbi’s fifth book and his third focused on examining contemporary life. His earlier books, Stofuhiti and Skjásko, attracted considerable attention.