![]() ![]() Armed with wit, talent, a manuscript and a typewriter, she has to face a world ruled by straight men who mock her dreams. Hekla, a young woman aptly named after a volcano, leaves Dalir, a remote part of Iceland to become a writer in Reykjavik. There, the narrator was a man impoverished by loss who tries to escape life in a country torn by war while here, the main character is an independent woman trying to find her way in the capital of Iceland. Hotel Silence was the first novel that I’ve read by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir and it was very different (review here). The title and the cover are all meant as an irony to the women’s condition in the 1960’ Iceland, where they were expected only to look good and respond positively to the advances of men. ![]() Please do not judge this novel by the pinkish cute cover.
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