by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · Zulma · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9791038703094
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«Éden» is the novel by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, published by Zulma in paperback (224 pages, in French).
Alba, a linguist of endangered languages, returns to Reykjavík and plants a birch garden on a lava wasteland to offset her carbon footprint. In that refuge she grows close to a young refugee and a neighbour fighting an industrial project. It explores the power of words, reinvention and ecological responsibility with humour and humanity.
Translated from the Icelandic by Éric Boury; original published in 2022. Nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize and winner of the Premi Llibreter for fiction.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction seeking stories with ecological awareness and a warm look at human relationships.
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic professor of art history, a novelist, playwright and poet. She received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Hotel Silence in 2018 and the Médicis Foreign Award for Miss Iceland in 2019.
