Kirjahaku

From internationally bestselling author Audur Ava Olafsdottir, a charming and tender novel about a recently divorced man on a life-changing journey into a war-torn country, where he finds the tools to mend the lives of those he encounters

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.

La mejor escritora n rdica actual, con m s de diez premios literarios y un mill n de lectores, regresa con «una novela deliciosa y p cara sobre el sentido de la existencia (Elle) Descendiente de un linaje de matronas, D ja es tambi n eso que en Islandia llaman «madre de la luz . Sus padres dirigen una funeraria, su hermana es meteor loga: nacer, morir y, entremedias, superar unas cuantas tormentas. En plena amenaza de hurac n, D ja ayuda a traer al mundo a su beb n mero 1922. Est tratando de arreglar el apartamento que ha heredado de su t a abuela, abarrotado de muebles, bombillas que parpadean y una caja de fruta llena de manuscritos: la t a F fa continu la labor que hab a comenzado la bisabuela de entrelazar los relatos de las antiguas comadronas que recorr an los p ramos del pa s en plena ventisca con sus propias reflexiones exc ntricas y visionarias sobre el planeta, la vida... y la luz. Mientras, en el tico, un turista australiano parece haber viajado hasta las ant podas para hacer balance de su vida. El ser humano es, definitivamente, el animal m s vulnerable sobre la Tierra, y el delgado hilo que nos une a la vida es tan fr gil como una aurora boreal. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literature Prize, Au ur Ava lafsd ttir, comes a dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in Iceland In the days leading up to Christmas, D mhildur 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, D mhildur 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, D mhildur escapes into her grandaunt's archive and discovers strange and beautiful reflections on birth, death and human nature. With her singular warmth and humor, in Animal Life lafsd ttir gives us a beguiling novel that comes direct from the depths of an Icelandic winter, full of hope for spring.

Bambi er en 61-årig transkønnet kvinde, der tidligere arbejdede som DJ, men som i dag er ekspert i menneskekroppens mindste byggesten, cellerne. Det her er hendes historie fra dengang hun delte livmoder med sin tvillingebror, og frem til i dag hvor hun er begyndt at tage kvindelige hormoner. Imens snegler hun sig op ad ventelisten til en operation der skal give hende en krop hun kan føle sig hjemme i. Ventetiden er tung, forholdet til familien er kompliceret, og af og til melder der sig en trang til at gå i havet og bare forsvinde. Men tvillingebroren Trausti har et forsigtigt og kærligt øje på hende.En tidligere skolekammerat opsøger Bambi fordi hun vil skrive en artikel om hendes liv og transformation. Men projektet griber om sig imens en invasiv mågekoloni ved Bambis lejlighed bliver stadigt mere angrebslysten.Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir har en uovertruffen evne til at behandle tilværelsens alvorligere sider med en særlig form for lethed, samtidig med at der filosoferes, udforskes og stilles svære spørgsmål, altid med en kærlig underfundighed som baggrundstæppe.Kåret som Årets Bedste Roman 2023 af Morgunblaðið, Islands største avis.