by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420407913
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«Rosa candida» is the contemporary fiction novel by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, published by Alfaguara in 2011 in paperback (280 pages, in Spanish).
Arnljótur leaves Iceland after his mother's death to travel to an ancient monastery with a legendary rose garden. He carries cuttings of the rosa candida, a flower with eight petals and no thorns that she cultivated; the journey becomes a re-encounter with himself and with the past.
Translation by Enrique Bernárdez. The novel was originally published as Afleggjarinn in 2007 and received the Fjöruverðlaun prize and the Prix des libraires du Québec.
For readers of contemporary and intimate fiction, with an interest in stories of personal growth and novels set in Iceland.
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.
