Olaf Olafsson, Author . Pantheon $23 (216p) ISBN 978-0-375-42468-7
Icelandic émigré novelist Olafsson (Absolution
) offers a grim look at chilled middle-aged marriage in 12 stories titled after the months of the year. Olafsson delivers the basic facts of a situation or marriage in a monotonous,...
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Olaf Olafsson, Author Pantheon Books $20 (259p) ISBN 978-0-679-42891-6
A popular writer in Iceland, Olafsson makes his English language debut in this sensitive, resonant, if imperfect, study of guilt, jealousy and betrayal. Peter Peterson, an Icelandic emigre and wealthy retired New York businessman, obsesses over a...
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Olaf Olafsson. HarperCollins, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-206566-7
There’s a lot going on in Olafsson’s fourth novel: it’s 1944, the Allies are advancing, the Germans retreating, and the front line is moving closer to San Martino, the Tuscan estate that English-born Alice Orsini and her Italian husband have...
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Olaf Olafsson. Ecco, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-289987-3
Olafsson (One Station Away) offers a mesmerizing and powerful look at abuse in the Catholic Church through the eyes of an elderly French nun called upon to revisit a two-decades-old case from 1987 in Iceland. Back then, Sister Johanna Marie, brought
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Olaf Olafsson. Ecco, $28.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-322698-2
Olafsson (The Sacrament) imagines how two people confronting the pandemic reconsider their futures in Reykjavik and Japan. After increasing lockdown restrictions, widower Kristófer Hannesson, 74, shutters his restaurant. Then he receives a friend...
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Olaf Olafsson, Author, Carol Brown Janeway, Editor Pantheon Books $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-42061-0
The cool undercurrents of history shiver the surface of this serene fiction set in England and Iceland after WWII. Twenty years after the war, Icelandic migr Adisa (""Disa"") Jonsdottir is a successful, Elizabeth Davidesque restaurateur, manager...
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