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I had seen the book in the bookstores but hesitated to buy it. It was in hardcover only and new hardcover books are expensive, it was January and as always I start the year telling myself not to buy any more books.....but then, after a few days I know that this is impossible, and it is not ME. Me is a book buyer, a book lover and a reader. With books on the menu for every meal. So next time I entered the bookstore I knew which book was a must.
As soon as I was home I started to read it, and as soon as I started to read I knew that this book had been waiting for me.
The book I am talking about is The Greenhouse by the Icelandic Audur Ava Olafsdottir, and the book is about a young man who leaves Iceland after his flowerloving mother has died in a tragic car accident. He takes a cutting of his mother´s favorite rose with him and travels south in Europe to work in an ancient monastery rose garden. In Iceland he leaves a baby daughter, and the mother of the baby.......
It all sounds so bleak when I write it like this. But the beauty in the book must be experienced by the reader in you, the artist in you, the you in you.
Is it possible to drink a book like noble wine?
Yes, it is. And the best part of it - you can drink it again and again and again and......
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The photos are from the Municipal Rose Garden in Rome.