The last days of my mother
By: Sölvi Björn Sigurðsson ; translated from the Icelandic by Helga Soffía Einarsdóttir
Contributors: Helga Soffía Einarsdóttir, 1973- translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Open Letter
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781934824733
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Mothers and sons; Terminally ill; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Fiction
Work titles: Síðustu dagar móður minnar
Description: "Hermann, 37 years old and listless, has his life turned upside-down when his rapier-tongued, usually intoxicated mother is diagnosed with cancer. They embark on a picaresque journey to Amsterdam to get her a special treatment, and to bond over all the booze they can imbibe. Wickedly funny and profound, this is a mother-son novel for the twenty-first century"--Amazon.com.
Notes: "Originally published in Icelandic in 2009 as Síðustu dagar móður minnar by Sögur, Reykjavìk, Iceland."

Includes bibliographical references and index.