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Nordic Council Literature Prize ほくおうひょうぎかいぶんがくしょう

Edition 58 (2018)

Literature prizeInternational Literature PrizeNordic Literature

Winners

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Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir あうずる あゔぁ おらふそどってぃる Winner

Ör, known in English as Hotel Silence, follows Jónas, a divorced Icelandic handyman whose life has collapsed and who travels to a war-scarred country intending to die. As he repairs a damaged hotel and helps the people around it, he begins to see his own wounds in a different light.

The hands that repair a broken hotel slowly begin to repair a life.

288 pages
renewallonelinessjourneyaftermath of warmidlife crisis