by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · Contemporary French Fiction · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757822593
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«Rosa Candida» is the novel by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir published by Contemporary French Fiction (Points) in paperback (332 pages, in French).
Arnljótur, twenty-two years old, becomes a father after a fleeting encounter with Anna. With cuttings of the eight-petalled rose he cultivated with his mother, he travels to an abandoned rose garden in a monastery guarded by a film-loving monk. There Anna reappears with her daughter Flora Sol, and the possibility of a new love opens up.
French edition published in 2012; translation by Catherine Eyjólfsson. Original title: Afleggjarinn (2007).
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and Nordic narrative, as well as coming-of-age and family stories.
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.
