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Love

By Hanne Orstavik

Love Contemporary literature

Love

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize Winner of the 2019 PEN America Translation Prize Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature As clear and relentless as the cold air, Love unfolds over one winter's evening. Single mother Vibeke and her son Jon have just moved to a small, remote town in the north of Norway. Tomorrow Jon will be nine. As Vibeke gets changed after work, Jon wonders what surprises his mother has prepared for him. He leaves the house certain she will make him a cake. But preoccupied with concerns of her own, she too ventures out. Inextricably linked yet desperately at odds, mother and son make their lonely ways through the unforgiving night. Beautifully translated into English by Martin Aitken, this edition is the twenty-eighth international publication of Love. Hanne Ørstavik's astonishing grasp of human fragility and her economy of form power this acknowledged masterpiece of Norwegian literature.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
146
Release Date:
2019-11-07
Publication Date:
2019-11-07
Publisher:
And Other Stories
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1911508725
ISBN13:
9781911508724
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
162 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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