I live here alone in a garage together with a laptop & an old hand grenade It's pretty cosy' Andshe's off Eighty-year-old Herra Bjoernsson lies alone in her garage waiting to die One of the most original narrators in literary history she takes readers with her on a dazzling ride of a novel as she reflects
- in a voice by turns darkly funny bawdy poignant & always always smart
- on the mishaps tragedies & turns of luck that shaped her life Born into a prominent political family Herra's idyllic childhood in the islands of western Iceland was brought to an abrupt end when her father foolishly cast his lot with a Hitler on the rise Separated from her mother & with her father away at war she finds herself abandoned & alone in war-torn Germany relying on her wits & occasional good fortune to survive Now with death approaching forced to hack into her sons' emails to have any contact with them at all Herra decides to take control of her destiny & sets a date for her own cremation
- at a temperature of 1000 degrees In this international bestseller Hallgrimur Helgason invites readers on a journey that is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking & which ultimately tells the deeply moving story of a woman swept up by the forces of history