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Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Animal Life about?

From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literature Prize, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, 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, Dómhildur 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, Dómhildur 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, Dómhildur 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 Ólafsdóttir gives us a beguiling novel that comes direct from the depths of an Icelandic winter, full of hope for spring.

Who reads Animal Life?

Author

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon

Publisher

Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802160171

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (65 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14