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The Journey Home

The Journey Home

by OlafOlafsson (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $3.36
Synopsis

For years, Disa has lived a quiet life, managing an English country-house hotel with her close companion Anthony. However, upon learning that she is terminally ill, Disa decides it is time to travel back to the village in Iceland where she was born. With enormous sensitivity, Olaf Olafsson takes the reader with Disa on her quietly heroic journey. As she goes north, across the seas, events she has spent most of her life trying to forget are slowly revealed. Turned away by her mother, her young fiancee murdered by the Nazis, Disa was left to find refuge as a cook in a wealthy household seething with both sexual and political violence. Irrevocably scarred by the consequences, only now can she attempt to find a resolution.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 09 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0571204740
ISBN 13: 9780571204748

Media Reviews
'An eerie suspenseful novel, one that delivers surprises until the very last beautiful page, and that happily remains with the reader long after that.' Margot Livesey, author of Criminals 'The novel whose aftertaste has lingered longest this year (1994) is Absolution... its deep humanity and elegiac tone made it oddly exhilarating.' Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year
Author Bio
Olaf Olafsson was born in Reykjavik in 1962. He attended Brandeis University, where he studied physics. Formerly the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, he is currently Vice-Chairman of Time Warner Digital Media. His debut novel in English, Absolution, was published in 1994 and became the biggest-selling work of fiction in Iceland's history. His second novel, The Journey Home, was published by Faber in 2001. He lives in New York City.