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Love
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- Book Synopsis
- Shortlisted for the 2020 Republic of Consciousness PrizeWinner of the 2019 PEN America Translation PrizeFinalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureAs 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.
- About The Author
- Hanne Ørstavik is one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her novel Love was voted one of Norway's Top Ten books of the last twenty-five years. Her penultimate novel Ti Amo was published in English by And Other Stories in 2022. Stay with Me is her latest and sixteenth novel.
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- ISBN
- 9781911508724
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- And Other Stories, (07 November 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 128
- Weight
- 134 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 197 x 10 mm
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