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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' 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. Audur Ava Olafsdottir was born in Iceland in 1958, studied art history in Paris and has lectured in History of Art at the University of Iceland. Her earlier novel, The Greenhouse (2007), won the DV Culture Award for literature and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Award. She currently lives and works in Reykjavik. Quirky and poetic, everything is there... An extraordinary novelist Madame Figaro A poetic and sensory narrative El PaisProduct Identifiers
PublisherPushkin Press
ISBN-139781782270102
eBay Product ID (ePID)176270205
Product Key Features
Book TitleButterflies in November
AuthorAudur Ava Olafsdottir
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2013
Dimensions
Item Height216mm
Item Width135mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAudur Ava Olafsdottir
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom