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Butterflies in November
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
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Description for Butterflies in November
Paperback. A hilarious and moving road trip around Iceland in an old car, told by a recently divorced woman with a five year-old boy 'on loan' Translator(s): Fitzgibbon, Brian. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
'Gorgeously quirky' Stylist
'Evocative and humorous' Observer
'Beguiling' Guardian
'Gorgeously quirky' Stylist
'Evocative and humorous' Observer
'Beguiling' Guardian
It's been a tough day.
She's been dumped. Twice. She's accidentally killed a goose. And now she's suddenly responsible for her best friend's deaf-mute son.
But when a shared lottery ticket turns the oddly matched pair into the richest people in Iceland, she and the boy find themselves on a road trip across the country. With cucumber hotels, dead sheep, and any number of her exes on their tail, Butterflies in November is a blackly comic and uniquely moving tale of motherhood, friendship and the power of words.
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir was born in ... Read more
'Beautifully crafted and translated... Carefully observed, sensuously written, and often darkly comic' Booktrust
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Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782270133
SKU
V9781782270133
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-33
About Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1958. She studied art history and art theory in Paris and is a lecturer in history of art at the University of Iceland and a director of the University of Iceland Art Collection. The Greenhouse, published in 2007 won the DV Culture Award for literature and a women's literary prize in ... Read more
Reviews for Butterflies in November
Funny and wistful... very moving, layered and optimistic
Isabel Berwick Financial Times Evocative and humorous Observer [Butterflies in November] has many bleak moments, but plenty of funny ones too... we warm to Olafsdottir's clear-eyed, quirky heroine Daily Mail Playfully self-conscious... reflecting on the relationships between reading and experience Guardian Brilliantly written, and the main protagonist is such a fascinating ... Read more
Isabel Berwick Financial Times Evocative and humorous Observer [Butterflies in November] has many bleak moments, but plenty of funny ones too... we warm to Olafsdottir's clear-eyed, quirky heroine Daily Mail Playfully self-conscious... reflecting on the relationships between reading and experience Guardian Brilliantly written, and the main protagonist is such a fascinating ... Read more