Una pastora en el borde del mundo
The inspiring story of Heiða, a lonely Icelandic sheep farmer, former model and feminist heroine, has become an international bestseller. "I'm not alone because I've sat crying with a handkerchief or apron because of the lack of attention from men." Heiða takes care of her flock of five hundred sheep in an unforgiving area bordering the highlands of Iceland, known as the End of the World. One of its closest neighbors is Iceland's most famous volcano, Katla, which has periodically expelled the inhabitants of Ljótarstaðir since people began farming there in the twelfth century. This portrait of her life, written with wit and humor by one of Iceland's most acclaimed novelists, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, tells the heroic story of a charismatic young woman who at twenty-three left a modeling career in New York to take over the family farm when her father died. "I want to tell women that they...read more
