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The Greenhouse Audur Ava Olafsdottir

The Greenhouse By Audur Ava Olafsdottir

The Greenhouse by Audur Ava Olafsdottir


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The Greenhouse Summary

The Greenhouse by Audur Ava Olafsdottir

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.

The Greenhouse Reviews

2011 Winner of the Quebec Booksellers' Prize (Canada) 2010 Winner of the Prix de Page for Best European Novel of the Year (France) 2007 Winner of the DV Culture Award (Iceland) Shortlisted for the Prix Femina (France) One of the most unexpected and greatest discoveries of the year. -Le Parisien Excellent introduction to Icelandic fiction; funny. -The New York Times The Greenhouse is a rare book, full of beauty. After opening the book I was unable to put it down, entirely captivated by its enchanting style. -Le Page A revelation. -Le Monde [An] entertaining read. -The Complete Review At once wryly observant and sweetly comic, The Greenhouse is a meditation on such sweeping themes as sex, death, becoming a parent, manhood, and finding a place for oneself in the world which doesn't once fall prey to cloying generalizations or cliche. Rather, through the eyes of twenty-two year old Arnljotur Thorir-or Lobbi, as his elderly father affectionately calls him-author Audur Ava Olafsdottir breathes a freshness and sincerity into her subject matter which is as charming as it is insightful. -Three Percent

About Audur Ava Olafsdottir

Audur Ava Olafsdottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1958. She studied art history and art theory in Paris and is a lecturer in history of art at the University of Iceland and a director of the University of Iceland Art Collection. She has curated art exhibitions in Iceland and abroad, including the Venice Biennale, and written about art and art history in various media. Audur Ava is the author of three novels, a book of poetry, and a play. The first novel, Raised Earth, was published in Iceland in 1998. Rain in November was published to rave reviews in 2004 and received the City of Reykjavik Literary Award. The Greenhouse, published in 2007 and forthcoming in English from AmazonCrossing, won the DV Culture Award for literature and a women's literary prize in Iceland and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Award. Since The Greenhouse was published in France in the autumn of 2010 under the title of Rosa Candida, the book has attracted a great deal of coverage in the French media and received unanimously good reviews. In September 2010, it received the Prix de Page literary award as the best European novel of 2010. The Prix de Page award is determined by a group of 771 bookstores in France where the book was on the bestseller's list for five consecutive months. The novel was also nominated for three other literary awards in France, including the prestigious Femina award. In January The Greenhouse was shortlisted for the Canadian 2011 Prix des libraires du Quebec award. Audur Ava Olafsdottir published The Hymn of Glitter, a book of poetry, in 2010, and her first play will premiere at the National Theatre of Iceland in September 2011. Audur Ava Olafsdottir's middle name, Ava, was adopted a few years ago as a tribute to the blind medieval French saint, Ava. Audur Ava Olafsdottir lives and works in Reykjavik.

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GOR004104826
9781611090796
1611090792
The Greenhouse by Audur Ava Olafsdottir
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Amazon Publishing
20111011
270
N/A
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