Thanks to Emily LaBeaume of Wunderkind PR, I am giving away one copy of The Greenhouse.
Book Description:
Not long after his mother dies tragically in a car accident, twenty-two year-old Lobbi, a brilliant student, leaves behind his studies, his father, an autistic brother, and memories of his mother to become a gardener. Leaving his native, infertile Iceland, he sets out to restore the once-renowned monastic gardens of a remote village monastery. Amongst his luggage he carries three rose cuttings from the rare eight-petal rose he and his mother cultivated and a photo of the young daughter he has only seen a few times, a child accidentally conceived in a brief encounter in his mother’s greenhouse with Anna, a girl he hardly knew. Like all quests, however, Lobbi is about to find out that oftentimes the destination is the journey itself.
After persevering through an emergency appendectomy once on the continent, Lobbi sets out, meeting many people whose kindness helps him on his way. Once at the monastery, he immediately sets to work transforming the garden under the watchful eye of a cinephile monk. Surprised by a visit from Anna and his daughter, he finds himself not only caring for the garden, but his daughter as well. Tentatively, Lobbi and his daughter establish a loving relationship as they feel their way into each other’s lives, their bond warm, unique, and fragile. Lobbi discovers the varied roles and joys of being a man: fatherhood, cooking, and the love of nurturing a family, all the while retaining his identity as a son, a brother, a lover, and…a gardener.
About the Author:
Audur Ava Olafsdottir was born in Reykjavík, Iceland. She is a lecturer in the history of art at the University of Iceland, a director of the University of Iceland Art Collection, and has curated art exhibitions in Iceland and abroad. She is the author of three novels, a book of poetry, and a play. Olafsdottir is available upon request for interviews and is the first of ten Icelandic novelists to be published by AmazonCrossing in celebration of her country’s role as the guest of honor at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair.
As a translator and playwright, Brian FitzGibbon has a particular passion for the translation of fiction. With experience that spans over twenty years, he has translated a vast array of film scripts, treatments, stage plays, and novels, working exclusively into English from Italian, French, and Icelandic. His translation of the Icelandic cult novel 101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason, published by Faber & Faber in the UK and Scribner in the US in 2002, was hailed by the Guardian as “dazzling” and the New York Times as “lucid.”
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