The Woman at 1,000 Degrees

by Hallgrímur Helgason

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Pub Date 1 Feb 2018 | Archive Date 12 Jan 2018

Oneworld Publications

Literary Fiction

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Description

‘I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and a hand grenade. It’s pretty cosy.’

And...she’s off. Eighty-year-old Herra Bjornsson takes readers on a dazzling ride of a novel as she reflects – in a voice by turns darkly funny, bawdy, poignant, and always, always smart – on the mishaps, tragedies and turns of luck that took her from a happy childhood to war-torn Europe, then to Argentina and finally to post-crash Iceland where the last pieces of this haunting puzzle fall into place.

An international bestseller, The Woman at 1,000 Degrees is a deeply moving story of a woman swept up by the forces of history, with echoes of All the Light We Cannot See.

‘I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and a hand grenade. It’s pretty cosy.’

And...she’s off. Eighty-year-old Herra Bjornsson takes readers on a dazzling ride of a novel as...

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