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Miss Iceland

A Novel

Auður Ava Olafsdottir

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Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)

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"e;Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman."e; -BookpageIn 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman.After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces's Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theatre, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla's opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or her job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. The two friends feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world.And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot. Hemlines are rising. In Iceland, another volcano erupts and Hekla meets a poet who brings to light harsh realities about her art-as she realizes she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever the cost.Miss Iceland, a winner of two international book awards, comes from the acclaimed author of Hotel Silence, which received the Icelandic Literary Prize. "e;Only a great book can make you feel you're really there, a thousand miles and a generation away. I loved it."e; -Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon"e;[A] winning tale of friendship and self-fulfillment."e; -Publishers Weekly, starred review

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