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Hjorth Vigdis

9781839768880

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Price: $24.99
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781839768880
Published: September 2024

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A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter. January and minus 14 DegreesC, white, frosty mist around the parked car, around the spruces, the mailbox on its post, but higher up the sky is blue, clear, the sun has come back. She has written in her diary that she is waiting for the heartbreak that will turn her into her true self. She has an impending sense of doom or possibly her own death.

So opens Vigids Hjorth's ground-breaking novel from 2001, which melds the yearning, doomed potency of Annie Ernaux's A Simple Passion with the scale and force of Anna Karenina. It asks, can passion be mistaken for love? And proceeds to document the destruction a decade defined by such a misconstruction can yield on a life.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781839768880
Published: September 2024

Number of pages: 352
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 25 mm

Publisher: Verso Books

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