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Olaf Olafsson

Biography

Olaf Olafsson

Olaf Olafsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1962. He studied physics as a Wien scholar at Brandeis University. He is the author of THE JOURNEY HOME, ABSOLUTION, WALKING INTO THE NIGHT, RESTORATION, ONE STATION AWAY, THE SACRAMENT, TOUCH, and a story collection, VALENTINES. He is the former executive vice president of Time Warner and lives in New York City with his wife and three children.

Olaf Olafsson

Books by Olaf Olafsson

by Olaf Olafsson - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Alice Orsini shocks everyone when she marries the son of a minor Italian landowner and begins restoring San Martino, a crumbling villa in Tuscany, to its former glory. But after years of hard work, Alice's growing restlessness pulls her into the heady social swirl of wartime Rome and a reckless affair that will have devastating consequences.