Vigdis Hjorth

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Übersetzer: Barslund, Charlotte

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

NYPL's Best Books of 2024

A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839768897
• Artikelnr.: 72294912

Autorenporträt

Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. Will and Testament sold 170,000 copies in Norway and has received several awards, including the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, as well as being nominated for the National Book Award and Nordic Council Literature Prize. Long Live the Post Horn! won the Believer Book Award for fiction in 2020, and Is Mother Dead was listed for the International Booker Prize in 2023.

Rezensionen

The novel offers neither redemption nor transcendence as its resolution. And yet Hjorth makes this relationship and its aftermath legible to us as a part of the human experience-one that we can't extract from the type of love we do consider desirable or healthy. At the end of the book, we might find ourselves wondering, as Ida does: 'If only there was a cure, a cure for love.' And we might realize, even as we wish this, that we don't actually mean it at all. Sophie Haigney The Paris Review