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Hotel Silence, a novel by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (BOOK REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION)

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Today I will review Hotel Silence , a novel by Icelandic author  Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir . Regular readers of my blog might remember that I read another book by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir y , back in August. You can read my review for Ava's novel The Greenhouse here .  The Greenhouse was my first novel by this author and Hotel Silence my second. I do plan to read more of this author. Anyhow, I read Hotel Silence  last month. I found it on a shelf dedicated to Icelandic literature in my local library. I keep seeing Icelandic authors in Croatian libraries, so I know I'm not the only one who is interested in reading more Icelandic literature. So far, I have bought a few books by  contemporary  Icelandic writers and I also pick them up in libraries. It's wnderful. Croatian translations are available. I often make the mistake of looking for translations in English and forget there so many translated works available in my mother tongue. Speaking of translations,  I recommend once