Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Libri
1 gennaio 1958
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir è un'autrice le cui opere si addentrano nelle profondità dell'esperienza umana. La sua scrittura, spesso ambientata sullo sfondo dei paesaggi islandesi, esplora temi di identità e la ricerca di significato. La Ólafsdóttir è caratterizzata dal suo stile poetico e dalle sue penetranti intuizioni sulla psicologia dei personaggi. La sua voce letteraria offre ai lettori una prospettiva unica sulla vita e sull'arte.
In the days leading up to Christmas, Domhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards Reykjavik, Domhildur discovers decades worth of letters and manuscripts hidden amongst her grandaunt's clutter. Fielding calls from her anxious meteorologist sister and visits from her curious new neighbour, Domhildur escapes into her grandaunt's archive and discovers strange and beautiful reflections on birth, death and human nature. For even in the depths of an Icelandic winter, new life will find a way
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Butterflies in November
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- 11 ore di lettura
A young woman is left by her husband without warning, then she is asked by her sick best friend to look after her four-year-old son. In the twilight of an Icelandic November, the pair set off on a tour of the island, and an unlikely friendship develops. A story shot-through with laughter and a distinctive, life-affirming charm, this book is a novel that will stay with the reader long after the smiles it provokes have faded from their lips.
Pět severských her
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La excepción
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