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"Silent Hotel" Author: [Iceland] Odur Ava Olafsdottir Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House
"Silent Hotel" Author: [Iceland] Odur Ava Olafsdottir Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House
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Nobel Vane 2018 Nordic Council Literature Prize Winner
Icelandic version of "A Man Called Ove Decides to Die"
Everyone has their own battles to fight, and when I'm with you, I want to be the hero I dreamed of being when I was seven years old.
My name is Jonas. I’m almost 49 years old. My wife left me, my mother’s memory has faded to the point where she often doesn’t recognize me, and I have a daughter. To be exact, she is not my daughter. I only recently found out that we are not related by blood.
I have held a newborn squishy baby in my arms, cut down a Christmas tree in the woods in December, taught my child to ride a bicycle, and fought with reality in the long or short nights. I know very well that life has tears and laughter, love and hate, everyone has the talent to write poetry, and everyone knows that they will die one day.
I bought a one-way ticket and came to a quiet hotel in a distant country, ready to commit suicide, but my thin luggage and the toolbox I carried with me unexpectedly attracted the interest of the hotel owner and guests...
★The most unmissable masterpiece by Odu Ava Ólafsdottir, a contemporary Icelandic female writer.
He has won or been nominated for several international literary awards, including the Femina Prize, the French Pages Prize, the Quebec Booksellers Prize, the DV Cultural Prize, etc.
★The Icelandic warm current that heals people’s hearts, and the sad and cute warm man who moved the whole of Europe.
"A Man Called Ove Decides to Die", which is known as the Icelandic version of the novel, won the Nordic Council Literature Prize, a Nobel Prize indicator, and the Icelandic Booksellers Literature Prize.
★As perfect as a crystal ball, full of philosophy and enlightenment.
The stories in the book are like crystal balls, small in size but each one perfectly contains a complete world. A work full of humanistic atmosphere and artistic sense.
——Book review from Le Monde, France
About the Author
Odu Ava Olafsdottir
Novelist, playwright, poet. Born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1958, her debut novel was published in 1998. In the following 20 years, her works have been translated into more than 20 languages and have won or been nominated for international literary awards, including the Prix Femina, the French Pages (selected by 771 bookstores in France, the selection criteria require that the work be on the bestseller list for more than five months), the Quebec Booksellers Literary Award, the DV Cultural Literary Award, etc.
The Silent Hotel is her representative work. After its publication in 2016, it won the Icelandic Booksellers’ Best Literature Award and the Nordic Council Literature Award, known as the “Nobel Prize weathervane”, in 2018. The film adapted from the novel is about to be released.
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