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Butterflies in November / Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon.

by Auður A. Ólafsdóttir, 1958-

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Black Cat, c2013, c2004.

Life change events -- Fiction.

Lottery winners -- Fiction.

Self-realization in women -- Fiction.

Iceland -- Fiction.

9780802123183 (trade pbk.)

080212318X (trade pbk.)

Rigning i nóvember. English English

Alternate title:

Rigning i nóvember.

296 p. ; 21 cm.

Original Icelandic language title: Rigning i nóvember.

Translated from the Icelandic.

After a day of being dumped - twice - and accidentally killing a goose, a young woman yearns for a tropical vacation far away from the chaos of her life. Instead, her plans are thrown off course by her best friend's four-year-old deaf-mute son, thrust into her reluctant care. But when the boy chooses the winning numbers for a lottery ticket, the two of them set off on a road trip across Iceland with a glove compartment stuffed full of their jackpot earnings. Along the way, they encounter black sand beaches, cucumber farms, lava fields, flocks of sheep, an Estonian choir, a falconer, a hitchhiker, and both of her exes desperate for another chance. As she and the boy grow closer, what began as a spontaneous adventure unexpectedly and profoundly changes the way she views her past and charts her future. Butterflies in November is a blackly comic, charming, and uplifting tale of friends and lovers, motherhood, and self-discovery.

Psychological fiction.

Black humor (Literature)

Icelandic fiction -- Translations into English.

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