3.5, rounded up.

Although this is my least favorite of the three Sjón novels I have read so far, there is something so joyously playful about them, that even when they don't seem to come together in any fruitful fashion, as here, they are still a pleasure to read. And as per usual, Victoria Cribb's translation is so effortlessly fluid that if it weren't for the subject matter, one wouldn't guess it wasn't originally rendered in English.