Descendiente de un linaje de matronas, Dja es tambin eso que en Islandia llaman «madre de la luz . Sus padres dirigen una funeraria, su hermana es meteorloga: nacer, morir y, entremedias, superar unas cuantas tormentas. En plena amenaza de huracn, Dja ayuda a traer al mundo a su beb nmero 1922. Est tratando de arreglar el apartamento que ha heredado de su ta abuela, abarrotado de muebles, bombillas que parpadean y una caja de fruta llena de manuscritos: la ta Ffa continu la labor que haba comenzado la bisabuela de entrelazar los relatos de las antiguas comadronas que recorran los pramos del pas en plena ventisca con sus propias reflexiones excntricas y visionarias sobre el planeta, la vida... y la luz. Mientras, en el tico, un turista australiano parece haber viajado hasta las antpodas para hacer balance de su vida. El ser humano es, definitivamente, el animal ms vulnerable sobre la Tierra, y el delgado hilo que nos une a la vida es tan frgil como una aurora boreal. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literature Prize, Auur Ava lafsdttir, comes a dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in Iceland In the days leading up to Christmas, Dmhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards Reykjavik, Dmhildur discovers decades worth of letters and manuscripts hidden amongst her grandaunt's clutter. Fielding calls from her anxious meteorologist sister and visits from her curious new neighbour, Dmhildur escapes into her grandaunt's archive and discovers strange and beautiful reflections on birth, death and human nature. With her singular warmth and humor, in Animal Life lafsdttir gives us a beguiling novel that comes direct from the depths of an Icelandic winter, full of hope for spring.
Descendiente de un linaje de matronas, Dja es tambin eso que en Islandia llaman «madre de la luz . Sus padres dirigen una funeraria, su hermana es meteorloga: nacer, morir y, entremedias, superar unas cuantas tormentas. En plena amenaza de huracn, Dja ayuda a traer al mundo a su beb nmero 1922. Est tratando de arreglar el apartamento que ha heredado de su ta abuela, abarrotado de muebles, bombillas que parpadean y una caja de fruta llena de manuscritos: la ta Ffa continu la labor que haba comenzado la bisabuela de entrelazar los relatos de las antiguas comadronas que recorran los pramos del pas en plena ventisca con sus propias reflexiones excntricas y visionarias sobre el planeta, la vida... y la luz. Mientras, en el tico, un turista australiano parece haber viajado hasta las antpodas para hacer balance de su vida. El ser humano es, definitivamente, el animal ms vulnerable sobre la Tierra, y el delgado hilo que nos une a la vida es tan frgil como una aurora boreal. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literature Prize, Auur Ava lafsdttir, comes a dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in Iceland In the days leading up to Christmas, Dmhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards Reykjavik, Dmhildur discovers decades worth of letters and manuscripts hidden amongst her grandaunt's clutter. Fielding calls from her anxious meteorologist sister and visits from her curious new neighbour, Dmhildur escapes into her grandaunt's archive and discovers strange and beautiful reflections on birth, death and human nature. With her singular warmth and humor, in Animal Life lafsdttir gives us a beguiling novel that comes direct from the depths of an Icelandic winter, full of hope for spring.
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