Butterflies in November

'Gorgeously quirky' Stylist 'Evocative and humorous' Observer 'Beguiling' Guardian It's been a tough day. She's been dumped. Twice. She's accidentally killed a goose. And now she's suddenly responsible for her best friend's deaf-mute son. But when a shared lottery ticket turns the oddly matched pair into the richest people in Iceland, she and the boy find themselves on a road trip across the country. With cucumber hotels, dead sheep, and any number of her exes on their tail, Butterflies in November is a blackly comic and uniquely moving tale of motherhood, friendship and the power of words.

About the author

AUÐUR AVA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR is a prize-winning novelist, playwright and poet. Her novels have been translated into 33 languages, and have won the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the Icelandic Literary Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Icelandic Bookseller's Prize. She lives in Reykjavík.BRIAN FITZGIBBON translates from Italian, French and Icelandic. Recent translations include Woman at 1000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason as well as Hotel Silence and Miss Iceland by Auður Ava
Ólafsdóttir.

Product details

• Authors: Brian FitzGibbon, Audur Ava Olafsdottir, Audur Ava (Author) Olafsdottir, Auður A Ólafsdóttir, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
• Assisted by: Brian FitzGibbon (Translation), Brian (Translator) Fitzgibbon (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9781782270133
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-013-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 201 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary