Search results for ""Author Audur Ava Olafsdottir""

El mejor libro de la autora islandesa que conquistó el mundo con el éxito de sus novelas Rosa candida y La mujer es una isla.Tú serás la última mujer de mi vida.Esta es la confesión que escucha María una Nochevieja de boca de su marido, un matemático especialista en la teoría del caos que parecía el hombre perfecto.Perpleja por la separación, María debe afrontar también la repentina aparición de su padre biológico. Sin embargo, gracias al cortejo de un joven vecino aficionado a la ornitología y a la amistad entrañable de Perla, doctora en Psicoanálisis, consejera matrimonial y escritora, sus pasos emprenden un nuevo rumbo.La crítica ha dicho...Como un hacha que parte un mar de hielo interior, pero a la vez con una femenina sutilidad.Joaquín Arnáiz, La RazónUna autora que está dibujando, libro a libro, un mapa de las complejidades sentimentales de nuestros días, como si pusiera al día a la novela, con una voz que dinamita

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Una historia profunda, esperanzadora y divertida, por la autora de Rosa candida, la multipremiada novela islandesa que conquistó el mundo, traducida a 20 idiomas y ganadora de 7 premios literarios.La protagonista de esta pequeña gran historia es una mujer de treinta y tres años cuyo marido acaba de pedirle el divorcio. Decidida a dar un giro radical en su vida, y tras la profecía de una médium que le asegura que en una distancia de 300 kilómetros ganará la lotería y conocerá a tres hombres -uno de los cuales será el amor de su vida-, emprende un viaje siguiendo la ruta que rodea Islandia. No irá sola: Tumi, el hijo de una amiga en apuros, dos muñecos de peluche, y una caja de libros y de cedés la acompañarán en el camino.La crítica ha dicho:Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir dibuja una feminidad atípica y chispeante... Esta crónica de los días posteriores a una separación es una divertida celebración de la vida, y aborda temas como el amor, la ternura, el sexo...X

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When winter snows cover Iceland in a sea of white, this volcanic island is transformed into an enchanting visual masterpiece that precariously rests on two tectonic plates in the North Atlantic just below the Arctic Circle. Ironically, the white blanket reveals more clearly the landscape's incredible geological formations and remote human settlements, eliciting a natural human response of wonderment. David Freese's profound, ongoing concern for our environmental predicament is once again manifested in his photographs of Iceland. By showing us what humankind is on the brink of losing, his images share and preserve his vision of this unique and special place. The award-winning Icelandic novelist, poet, and playwright Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir contributes a heartfelt afterword that adds her voice to the persistent warnings and alarms that have gone unheeded by too many for too long. As a citizen of Iceland, her testimony is that of a compelling witness. A small jewel of a book, Iceland Wintertide becomes a powerful coda to David Freese's Trilogy of North American Waters as the threats and ramifications of a warming climate steadily increase before our eyes. His photographs provide an added inspiration to act even in the face of those who purposefully deny only to protect their special interests.

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For Lobbi, the tragic passing of his mother proves to be a profound catalyst. Their shared love of tending rare roses in her greenhouse inspires him to leave his studies behind and travel to a remote village monastery to restore its once fabulous gardens. While transforming the garden under the watchful eye of a cinephile monk, he is surprised by a visit from Anna, a friend of a friend with whom he shared a fateful moment in his mother’s greenhouse, and the daughter they together conceived that night. In caring for both the garden and the little girl, Lobbi slowly begins to assume the varied and complex roles of a man: fatherhood with a deep relationship with his child, cooking, nurturing, and remaining also a son, brother, lover, and…a gardener. A story about the heartfelt search for beauty in life, The Greenhouse is a touching reminder of our ability to turn the small things in everyday life into the extraordinary.

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In the days leading up to Christmas, Dómhildur 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, Dómhildur 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, Dómhildur 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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