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A review by anetq
Stiklingen by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
5.0
I am really enjoying the equal humor and depth of Olafdóttirs novels. This is my second (I really enjoyed the Nordic Council Prize winner: Ar (scars?) as well) and there are similarities: we kick off with a person in crisis, going on the road, who ends up finding something to live for - possibly themselves.
This is an earlier work, but awesome in it's own right. Our main character has lost his mother and anchor of the family. He has also fathered a child after a one night stand in his mother's green house - a green house that has also spawned a new kind of rose in a hostile climate... So our hero goes on a quest to save the oldest and most magnificent rose garden in Europe - with seedlings of his mothers roses, when his own seedling turn up... A fun read about life, love and gardening.
This is an earlier work, but awesome in it's own right. Our main character has lost his mother and anchor of the family. He has also fathered a child after a one night stand in his mother's green house - a green house that has also spawned a new kind of rose in a hostile climate... So our hero goes on a quest to save the oldest and most magnificent rose garden in Europe - with seedlings of his mothers roses, when his own seedling turn up... A fun read about life, love and gardening.