This is the story of a young Icelandic 22, leaving his country of lava and cold, his old father and his brother to go to plant rose bushes "candida rosa" eight petals, in a place where they will be preserved. These roses plants, it keeps her mother died in a car accident, omnipresent mother in what the father; Disabled notorious of the pan and the cooking recipe; in sentences that punctuate their conversations: "your mother would have said that, your mother would have done it, etc ..). Since an old classmate myopic, nurses "with brown eyes", a daughter of innkeeper starlet, an inn cook, Brother Thomas, a monk cinephile, the characters encountered in his travels are baroque. The structure of the novel is brilliant: all is said and announced more than suggested from the beginning, but in the manner of a Scheherazade, or exposed or released until the following pages. Naturalism and realistic about disconcerting simplicity while they fascinate. Yes emotions, but very real: cold, hunger, fear, joy, sorrow, misunderstanding .... all spend. The tragic is omnipresent, this book contains one of the most moving scenes that are evoking strength and immense modesty son's love for his mother, and the pain of death. The humor also, in counterpoint, constant, relativizing all these fatal events. This book is especially a beautiful love story between the hero and this young woman, geneticist, the mother of his daughter, loved "half a night in a greenhouse" and their attempt to create a home around Flora-Sol child in the face of Jesus. The magic takes place in a monastery, around a garden of rare pink abandoned, resurrected by the young hero who plants to the famous candida rosa his mother had asked him to preserve. A deep reading on fatherhood, motherhood, love, togetherness, joys and sorrows of life. A nice tribute to our part of humanity!
