The Journey HomeThe Journey Home
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Book, 2000
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Current format, Book, 2000, 1st American ed, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsDiscovering that she is terminally ill, Disa leaves England to return to her native Iceland, where she hopes to come to terms with the painful events of her past: her fiancâe's death by the Nazi's and her mother's rejection.
Discovering that she is terminally ill, Disa, an accomplished cook, leaves England to return to her native Iceland, where she hopes to come to terms with the painful events of her past--the murder of her fiancT by the Nazis, her mother's rejection, and the violence she found within the wealthy household in which she sought refuge as a cook. By the author of Absolution. 15,000 first printing.
For years, Disa has lived a quiet life, managing an English country-house hotel with her close companion, Anthony. Having learned she is terminally ill, Disa decides it is time to travel back to the village in Iceland where she was born. With enormous sensitivity, Olafsson carries the reader with Disa on her quietly heroic journey. As she goes north, events she has spent most of her life trying to forget are slowly revealed. Turned away by her mother, her young fiance murdered by the Nazis, Disa was left to find refuge as a cook in a wealthy household that contained within it the seeds of both sexual and political violence. The consequences have marked her forever; only now can she attempt to find a resolution.
Discovering that she is terminally ill, Disa, an accomplished cook, leaves England to return to her native Iceland, where she hopes to come to terms with the painful events of her past--the murder of her fiancT by the Nazis, her mother's rejection, and the violence she found within the wealthy household in which she sought refuge as a cook. By the author of Absolution. 15,000 first printing.
For years, Disa has lived a quiet life, managing an English country-house hotel with her close companion, Anthony. Having learned she is terminally ill, Disa decides it is time to travel back to the village in Iceland where she was born. With enormous sensitivity, Olafsson carries the reader with Disa on her quietly heroic journey. As she goes north, events she has spent most of her life trying to forget are slowly revealed. Turned away by her mother, her young fiance murdered by the Nazis, Disa was left to find refuge as a cook in a wealthy household that contained within it the seeds of both sexual and political violence. The consequences have marked her forever; only now can she attempt to find a resolution.
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