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The woman at 1,000 degrees / Hallgrimur Helgason ; translated by Brian Fitzgibbon.
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9781786071699 (hardback)
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Hallgrímur Helgason, 1959-
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Konan við 1000°. English
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The woman at 1,000 degrees / Hallgrimur Helgason ; translated by Brian Fitzgibbon.
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London : Oneworld Publications , 2018.
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451 pages. ; 24 cm.
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Originally published in Icelandic as 'Konan við 1000°' by JPV utgafa, 2011.
Summary
Eighty-year-old Herra Bjornsson lives alone in a garage with her laptop, an oxygen tank and her father's old hand grenade. Neglected by her family, she spends her days spying on her children by hacking their emails and preparing to lose the race against the ticking time bomb of lung cancer, even making an appointment for her own cremation. As she counts down her final days, Herra looks back at her own remarkable life. Her happy childhood in Iceland was disrupted by the outbreak of war and her father's fervent love of Hitler. Shipped off to supposed safety, Herra spent the war trekking alone across war-torn Europe in a desperate bid to survive. Based on the first Icelandic president's real-life granddaughter, Hallgrimur Helgason's highly unusual and captivating tale spans the twentieth century in a way that is as hilarious as it is heart-breaking, taking readers on a whirlwind tour of Europe and South America before eventually returning home to Iceland where the final pieces of this haunting puzzle fall into place.
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Translated from the Icelandic.
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Older women -- Fiction
Terminally ill -- Fiction
Iceland -- Fiction
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FitzGibbon, Brian (Translator)
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