A review by kokod
The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

2.0

I wanted to give up on this book, but then the author would throw in a line that would explain life in terms that I never could. What really drove me to almost complete abandonment—and also why it took me so long to finish—was that the narrator was so annoying. He says—talking about himself—towards the end of the novel: “Man might be a bit of an overstatement, overgrown teenager might be more like it.” This quote epitomizes the character of the narrator and why I find him to be so annoying.

What amuses me: the author is a woman. Yet, she seems to have captured the "overgrown teenage [boy]" perfectly.

Beautiful but a slog.