by Audur Ava Olafsdottir · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757851142
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«L'Exception» is the contemporary Icelandic novel by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, published by POINTS in paperback (288 pages, in French).
María discovers on New Year's Eve that her husband Floki, a chaos theory specialist, is leaving her for a colleague after eleven years of marriage. Perla, her peculiar neighbor, a marriage counselor and co-author of crime novels, helps her cope. An Icelandic dramedy about heartbreak, identity and personal reinvention, with humor and melancholy.
Translated from Icelandic by Catherine Eyjólfsson, original title «Undantekningin – de arte poetica»; originally published in 2012 and nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize.
A read for those seeking contemporary fiction with quirky characters, a wintery setting and a bittersweet take on 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.
