Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winters day, a young student at the school watches the schools headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the childnow a grown man, haunted by the pastcalls the nun back to the scene of the crime. Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent in France,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"For twenty years Christian Benediktsson has led a quiet life as William Randolph Hearst's butler. His days are filled with the rituals of Hearst's life and the demands of running a grand house. But in his most private thoughts and memories, he relives another life: his abandonment of his wife and children in Iceland for an actress in New York, a reckless affair and a tragic death, financial downfall, and the profound retreat from life that led him...