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The Creator
Gudrun Eva Minervudottir
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Description for The Creator
Paperback. A provocative and cinematic tale of isolation, friendship, the uses of sex and the art of finding salvation in the most unexpected of places Translator(s): Bowen, Sarah. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
When Lóa's car gets a puncture out in the countryside, the man who lives nearest proves recalcitrantly helpful. She ends up falling asleep in his armchair and wakes to intense guilt at neglecting her daughter back in Reykjavik, followed by shock at what she finds in her helper's back room - half-finished, life-size silicone women hanging from hooks. Sveinn, her host, is a craftsman; he makes sex dolls. In his workshop Lóa is overcome with a surprising reverence, and acting on a mad notion of salvation, she steals one of the dolls for her troubled daughter Margret. For ... Read more
When Lóa's car gets a puncture out in the countryside, the man who lives nearest proves recalcitrantly helpful. She ends up falling asleep in his armchair and wakes to intense guilt at neglecting her daughter back in Reykjavik, followed by shock at what she finds in her helper's back room - half-finished, life-size silicone women hanging from hooks. Sveinn, her host, is a craftsman; he makes sex dolls. In his workshop Lóa is overcome with a surprising reverence, and acting on a mad notion of salvation, she steals one of the dolls for her troubled daughter Margret. For ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Portobello Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846272523
SKU
V9781846272523
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About Gudrun Eva Minervudottir
GUÐRÚN EVA MÍNERVUDÓTTIR, born in 1976, was raised in various villages around Iceland, and spent her youth bartending and studying. A professional writer since the age of 22, she lives in Reykjavik with her husband, film-maker Marteinn Thorsson, and daughter Mínerva Marteinsdóttir. This is her first book to be translated into English.
Reviews for The Creator
A strange compelling experiment... a clever, amusing novel that plays with ideas about the boundary between the real and the artificial and the begs profound questions about loneliness and the human condition
Tina Jackson
Metro
Intriguing... A gripping, enjoyably offbeat drama
James Smart
Guardian
An affecting exploration of loneliness and detachment
David Evans ... Read more
Tina Jackson
Metro
Intriguing... A gripping, enjoyably offbeat drama
James Smart
Guardian
An affecting exploration of loneliness and detachment
David Evans ... Read more