Miss Iceland (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Isländska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2020-07-30
Förlag
Pushkin Press
Översättare
Brian FitzGibbon
Originalspråk
Icelandic
Dimensioner
198 x 129 x 20 mm
Vikt
272 g
ISBN
9781782275671

Miss Iceland

av Auur Ava Lafsdttir
Häftad,  Isländska, 2020-07-30
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Named after one of Iceland's most magnificent volcanoes, Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. She decides to try her luck in Reykjavik, and moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theatre, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla's opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or a job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. They both feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world. And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot, hemlines are rising, and in Iceland another volcano erupts, and Hekla knows she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever must be left behind.
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Audur Ava Olafsdottir's speciality is the small journeys we take in order to save ourselves and the ones we care for. She is the heart's finest map-maker -- Sjon

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Auur Ava lafsdttir is a prize-winning novelist, playwright and poet. She also writes lyrics for the Icelandic performance pop band Milkywhale. Auur Ava's novels have been translated into over 25 languages, and they include Butterflies in November and Hotel Silence, also published by Pushkin Press. Hotel Silence won the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the Icelandic Literary Prize, and was chosen Best Icelandic Novel in 2016 by booksellers in Iceland. Auur Ava lives in Reykjavik.

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