'Sadness and humour coexist beautifully in Butterflies in November' Metro You'll savour each page of this book' Company and makes them quirky, fun, adorable and bizarre. 'Brilliantly written, and the main protagonist is such a fascinating character.
reflecting on the relationships between reading and experience' Guardian we warm to Olafsdottir's clear-eyed, quirky heroine' Daily Mail ' has many bleak moments, but plenty of funny ones too. very moving, layered and optimistic' Isabel Berwick Financial Times Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre. 'Beautifully crafted and translated.Carefully observed, sensuously written, and often darkly comic' Booktrust She currently lives and works in Reykjavik as the director of the University of Iceland's Art Museum. Her earlier novel, The Greenhouse (2007), won the DV Culture Award for literature and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Award, and her other titles have been translated into 16 languages. Audur Ava Olafsdottir was born in Iceland in 1958, studied art history in Paris and has lectured in History of Art. 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. 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.
And now she's suddenly responsible for her best friend's deaf-mute son. 'Gorgeously quirky' Stylist 'Evocative and humorous' Observer 'Beguiling' Guardian It's been a tough day.
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