Icelandic Author Olaf Olafsson on 'One Station Away'

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 18, 2017

Icelandic businessman and author Olaf Olafsson joins us to discuss his new novel One Station Away. The story weaves together the lives of three different women -- an overlooked pianist, an elusive dancer whose untimely death her fiancé is desperate to untangle and a mysterious patient who is comatose after a violent accident. 

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