Hanne Ørstavik

Love (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Aitken, Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911508731
• Artikelnr.: 57901590

Autorenporträt

Hanne Ørstavik published the novel Cut in 1994 and embarked on a career that would make her one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of Love (Kjærlighet), which, in 2006 was voted the sixth best Norwegian book of the last twenty-five years in a prestigious contest in Dagbladet. Since then, the author has written several acclaimed and much discussed novels and received a host of literary prizes.