Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
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[2019]
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"The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, while she investigates a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims. A young nun is sent by the Vatican to explore allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a student at the school witnesses the school's headmaster, Father August Frans, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later,...
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When the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to be failing. But an uncanny bolt from the blue, a message from Miko Nakamura, a woman whom he₂d known in the sixties when they were students in London, both inspires and rattles him, as he is drawn inexorably back into a love story that has marked him for life. Even as the pandemic upends...
