Again, our narrator doesn’t seem to care that much. She goes home to her husband who announces his plan to leave her for his mistress, who is a few weeks away from having a baby. She’s having an affair with a man she doesn’t care about much and so when he tells her they should stop, neither she nor the reader cares much. Our heroine and narrator (I can’t recall that we’re ever told her name) is a translator with a gift for languages. Nothing’s really changed but you’re relieved it’s over. But instead the book plods along and then just sort of ends. This is one of those books where you are constantly waiting for something to happen. She goes on a road trip with her friend’s child (for some reason). What is this book about? A woman’s husband announces his desire to divorce him. Butterflies in November (Black Cat, 2014) is an Icelandic novel first published in 2004 but only recently translated into English.
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