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Butterflies in November

Butterflies in November

Name: Butterflies in November
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Audur Ava Olafsdottir
ISBN: 9781782270102

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

07/11/2013
Pushkin Press

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A hilarious and moving road trip around Iceland in an old car, told by a recently divorced woman with a boy on loan After a day of being dumped - twice - and accidentally killing a goose, the narrator begins to dream of tropical holidays far away from the chaos of her current life. Instead, she finds her plans wrecked by her best friend's deaf-mute son, thrust into her reluctant care. But when a shared lottery ticket nets the two of them over 40 million kroner, she and the boy head off on a road trip across Iceland, taking in cucumber-farming hotels, dead sheep, and any number of her exes desperate for another chance. Blackly comic and uniquely moving, Butterflies in November is an extraordinary, hilarious tale of motherhood, relationships and the legacy of life's mistakes. 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 Iceland, was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Award and received unanimously acclaim. Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir lives and works in Reykjavik. Butterflies in November is translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon and published by Pushkin Press