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Animal life / Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon..

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F OLAF	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781782277675 (paperback)
Classification	F OLAF
Personal Name	Auður A. Ólafsdóttir, 1958-
Uniform Title	Dýralíf.
Title	Animal life / Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon..
Production & Copyright Details	London : Pushkin Press, 2022.
Production & Copyright Details	©2022
Physical Description	188 pages ; 20 cm
Content type	text
Note	Translated from the Icelandic.
Summary Note	In the days leading up to Christmas, Domhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards Reykjavik, Domhildur discovers decades worth of letters and manuscripts hidden amongst her grandaunt's clutter. Fielding calls from her anxious meteorologist sister and visits from her curious new neighbour, Domhildur escapes into her grandaunt's archive and discovers strange and beautiful reflections on birth, death and human nature. For even in the depths of an Icelandic winter, new life will find a way.
Subject - Topical Term	Midwives -- Fiction
Subject - Topical Term	Icelandic fiction -- Translations into English
Subject - Geographic Name	Iceland -- Fiction
Subject - Genre	Christmas fiction
Added Entry - Personal Name	FitzGibbon, Brian (Translator) translator.