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Animal Life

By Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon (Translator)
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By Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon (Translator)
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From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literature Prize, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, comes a dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in Iceland

In the days leading up to Christmas, Dómhildur 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 grandau...

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