by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782757833155
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«L'embellie» is the novel by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, published by Points in paperback (394 pages, in French).
Abandoned by her husband, who leaves her with the mattress and the box spring, the protagonist is left in charge of her best friend's four-year-old son, a strange, almost deaf child. That week she also wins the lottery twice. Her reaction is to leave: a summer vacation in the middle of winter with little Tumi across Iceland's wild moors.
It is the French translation of an Icelandic novel; the Points edition is from 2014 and consists of 394 pages in paperback.
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.
