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Móðurást: Draumþing

“Mother Love: Dream Assembly” (title translated by AI)

Kristín Ómarsdóttir (born 1962)

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Oddný, almost fifteen, is holding on to childhood because the toil of adult women frightens her. A midsummer gathering opens a secret, enchanting world of women hidden from the men who rule. The second volume of the author's fictionalised life of her great-grandmother in Biskupstungur in the late nineteenth century.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
160 pages in the original
Genres
Historical, Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Iceland, late 19th century
Series
Móðurást, book 2
First published
2024 by Mál og menning
Author's age
62 when first published
ISBN

9789979352686 (original)