Without losing petals

Quick Arnjoltur Portrait, 22 years: a nonchalant and naïve boy, that life circumstances have changed without the curing is complete. The psychological insight, it is one of the talents of Audur Ava Olafsdottir, this writer that we discover with Rosa candida, an absolutely delightful book which tells how, passing north and south of Europe, this Icelandic of candid Arnjoltur will become a man, a lover, a father and a son. The book, a road movie times, fixed in an unspecified countries (Greece, Macedonia, Albania?), Specifically in the garden of a monastery where our hero will practice his art, and learn many things of life, especially in contact with a mad monk movie and marriage counselor on occasion. It is a novel where horticulture is a large square, with the famous rose to 8 petals, but also the kitchen (ah, telephone conversations between father and son when the evocation of revenue is a roundabout way of speaking mother of the deceased and say their mutual love). Rosa candida is also, and above all, a love story in reverse: it first passes a 1/4 night together and then, much later, we speak and it is envisaged, perhaps a lifetime two (three since a beautiful baby girl was born). Audur Ava Olafsdottir wrote an awfully delicate and gently funny novel, which never loses petals and does not let its a sole hero. It grew out of the book and the reader alike.