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In the days leading up to Christmas, Domhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards Reykjavik, Domhildur discovers decades worth of letters and manuscripts hidden amongst her grandaunt's clutter. Fielding calls from her anxious meteorologist sister and visits from her curious new neighbour, Domhildur escapes into her grandaunt's archive and discovers strange and beautiful reflections on birth, death and human nature. For even in the depths of an Icelandic winter, new life will find a way
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Animal Life, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- Animal Life
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 1782277676
- ISBN13
- 9781782277675
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Nature, Animals, Contemporary Fiction, Relationships, Holidays, Christmas, Family relationships, Winter, Cold, Searching for the meaning of life, Iceland, Manuscripts, Icelandic Literature, Midwives
- First published
- 2020
- Original title
- Dýralíf
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- In the days leading up to Christmas, Domhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards Reykjavik, Domhildur discovers decades worth of letters and manuscripts hidden amongst her grandaunt's clutter. Fielding calls from her anxious meteorologist sister and visits from her curious new neighbour, Domhildur escapes into her grandaunt's archive and discovers strange and beautiful reflections on birth, death and human nature. For even in the depths of an Icelandic winter, new life will find a way