by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466326254
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«Rosa candida» is the contemporary fiction novel by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
After his mother's accident, Arnljótur leaves his home and family to travel to a monastery where a legendary rose garden is found. He is moved by the memory of his mother's greenhouse and of the rosa candida, a flower with eight petals and no thorns, and of Anna, whom he loved there one night. The journey becomes a search for himself and for lost love.
«Rosa candida» was originally published in Icelandic as Afleggjarinn and received the Fjöruverðlaunin Prize and the Prix Page des Libraires.
Suitable for readers of contemporary fiction and Nordic literature interested in intimate stories about loss, memory, and personal reinvention.
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.
