Books by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir (1)


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Karitas Untitled by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Iceland flag Iceland
Description:
A portrait of an artist trapped by convention and expectations but longing for the chaos that can set her free. Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Olafsdóttir, the youngest of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling and is determined to never let go of her true being, one unsuited for the conventional. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life and all its expectations of women. Pulled back time and again by design and by chance to the Icelandic countryside--as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and fishe... continue