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Hanne Orstavik is a well known, prize winning Norwegian author and I thought this book would fit the bill when I was looking for something different to read. What I found was a hauntingly sad story of a single mother, Vibeke, and her eight year old son, Jon and the separate lives they live together. Leggi tutto

Eerie story involving a mother and son. A thin layer, below the surface of the events that transpire, reveals the sense of something being not quite right. A mother who is so very self absorbed imagining and filling in the blanks of her life with how she wants the story to go. Her son, so lost and a Leggi tutto

“Can’t you just go, she thinks to herself. Find something to do, or play, or something” I read this book due to its longlisting for the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize for UK and Irish small presses - for which it has now been shortlisted. And Other Stories is a small UK publisher which “publ Leggi tutto

Trenzas y frío. Mucho frío. Novela cortita que narra una gélida noche de una madre y su hijo en un pueblo de Noruega. Entramos en la cabeza de Vibeke para conocer sus pensamientos e inquietudes y saltamos a la cabeza de Jon, que está ilusionado porque mañana su madre le va a preparar una fiesta por s Leggi tutto

Verbeke, a single mom, and Jon, her eight-year-old, have recently moved to a new town in Norway, and are feeling their way into new lives. In luscious, often hypnotic prose—the translation by Martin Aitken is superb—Hanne Ørstavik narrates the events of the day before Jon‘s ninth birthday: a thrilli Leggi tutto

Jon stands in the doorway looking at her. He tries not to blink. He wants to ask her something about his birthday, tomorrow he’ll be nine. He tells himself it can wait, she’s asleep now. A book in her lap. He’s used to seeing her like that. A book, the bright light of the floor lamp.Often, she’ll ha Leggi tutto