Vigdis Hjorth

A controversial bestseller from one of Norway's most intelligent and highly regarded novelists. This emotionally searing novel is at once a wrenching look at a family fractured and a meditation on the nature of trauma and memory..

Will and Testament

Winner of the 2020 Believer Book Award for Fiction "A brilliant study of the mundane, full of unexpected detours and driving prose. Hjorth's novel ingeniously orbits the intimate stories that are possible only when a character has put words on paper and sent them through the post." – New York Times Book Review, “The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election” "Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers." – Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? From the author of the 2019 National Book Award Longlisted Will and Testament Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she's ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months. This is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Vigdis Hjorth's trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style.

Long Live the Post Horn!

Miras

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controverdsial modern classic, Will and Testament 'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art.The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought aboiut a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new proximity, after decades of acrimonius absence, set both women on edge, and before too long Johanna finds her mother stalking her thoughts, and Johanna starts stalking her mother's house.

Is Mother Dead

roman

Arv og miljø

Arv och miljö

Är mor död

Tells the story of Alma, a divorced textile artist, who rents out an apartment in her old villa to a Polish family. Will it be possible for her to reconcile her desire to be tolerant and altruistic with the imperative need for personal space?

A House in Norway

Postane Günlükleri

Charlotte Barslund

Prize-winning novel by one of the foremost writers of her generation, explores the horror and beauty of being sixteen-years-old.

In a Norwegian November, when it is dark at waking and dark at sleeping, a novelist in her sixties sits next to a teenaged girl at the opera, and through their padded jackets feels a dreadfully familiar tension conducted from the parents seated on her far side.

She thinks back to her sixteenth year. The year she first got drunk and the year she first had sex with a boy. A year of being circled by an anxious, hawkish mother and, at a notable distance, her silent father. The year her family made an unspoken decision, and an unspeakable sacrifice.

Repetition

Mor, far, søster og bror er de viktigste menneskene i unge Paulas liv. Roen brytes den sommeren Paula oppdager en bunke med brev som moren har skrevet til mormor. Familielivet som beskrives i dem er ikke til å kjenne igjen, det er fullt av løgn. Morens forstillelse blir et sjokk for Paula. Hvordan skal hun bære det hun plutselig vet?

den revolusjonære våren : roman

Femten år

novela

La herencia

One of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness, exposing a story both utterly familiar and desperately strange. It was the year she first got drunk, the year she first had sex with a boy. She was watched like a hawk by an anxious mother and a silent, distant father. It was a year of typical teenage fixation and typical teenage frivolity, and of all the usual parental fretting. Until something else took hold, and her family made an unspoken decision and a terrible sacrifice. Only now, decades later, can these events come close to being comprehended. In Repetition, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.

A Novel

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial modern classic, Will and Testament.

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Eredità

"Om bare" handler om småbarnsmoren og dramatikeren Ida Heier som møter sitt livs kjærlighet. Hun har lenge visst at noe kom til å skje, for man kan merke sin evne til å elske før man møter sin elskede. Hennes lidenskap rammer den ti år eldre professoren Arnold Busk, også han gift og med barn. I et par år er hun ulykkelig lengtende før han blir skilt. Det er begynnelsen på et overstadig turbulent og grenseløst kjærlighetsforhold, en besettelse som nærmer seg galskap. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

Om bare

Lärarinnans sång

"Henrik Falk" er en roman fritt etter Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler". Hvem ville Hedda Gabler vært i dag? Henrik Falk kommer hjem fra bryllupsreise med sin høygravide kone Elsa; han føler seg allerede fanget. Da Henrik får vite at hans tidligere kjæreste, har kjøpt barndomshjemmet hans, blir situasjonen uutholdelig

Henrik Falk

Quando uma disputa pelo testamento dos pais se transforma em uma discussão amarga, Bergljot é arrastada de volta para a órbita familiar da qual se afastou vinte anos antes. Seus pais decidiram deixar as casas de veraneio no arquipélago de Hvaler para as duas irmãs mais novas, deixando Bergljot e seu irmão de fora. Para os que olham de fora, é uma disputa sobre ganância e favoritismo. Mas Bergljot, que carrega um trauma terrível sobre sua infância, sabe que o gesto é uma tentativa final de apagar o passado e um insulto cruel às verdadeiras vítimas da história. Entre discussões acirradas e mergulhos na memória, a narrativa de Vigdis Hjorth sobre os legados que não escolhemos herdar e que permeiam os laços familiares se configura em um romance brilhante que a consagra como uma das maiores autoras norueguesas da contemporaneidade. "Um romance espinhoso e persuasivo. Como a de Knausgaard, a escrita de Hjorth vai contra a repressão e o tabu de relatar as coisas como elas são. Mas, enquanto ele direciona o olhar sobre corpos mortos, ela nos força a encarar almas feridas." — New Yorker "Certamente tem a mordida da autenticidade. A dor parece ao mesmo tempo purulenta e fresca: lê-lo é como ver alguém descascar camadas de pele ainda não cicatrizada para examinar uma ferida." — Guardian

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