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Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine - A Novel (Hardcover)
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Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine - A Novel (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R571
Discovery Miles 5 710
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LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES
GLOBETROTTING PICK A remarkable and heartbreaking debut novel with
the lyrical beauty and emotional resonance of By Grand Central
Station I Sat Down and Wept and the thematic complexity of
Asymmetry, that combines fractal mathematics and classical music to
explore the infinitely complex patterns of love and the thin border
between great passion and great loneliness. Rakel has always been
more comfortable with numbers than with people. A gifted woman with
a rare talent for math, she has never mastered the art of making
friends. At nineteen, she moves to Oslo to attend university. There
she meets Jakob, a brilliant older teacher who becomes fascinated
by Rakel's quick mind. Jakob is struck by the similarities between
Rakel and Sofja Kovalevskaja, the first woman to become a professor
of mathematics, and the subject of the novel he is writing. Just as
Kovalevskaja was close to her much older advisor, Rakel and Jakob
are drawn to each other and eventually become lovers, although he
is already married. In the years to come, Rakel's academic career
soars, but her health declines, and from her bedside she spends
hours imagining Sofja's life while trying to understand her own.
With a gaze both naive and mercilessly sharp, she examines what may
be her life's only love story, looking for patterns and answers in
numbers, music, and literature. Extraordinarily wise and
penetrating, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine explores the
intricacies of the human heart, the complicated equation that is
love, and the search to find meaning and connections when you need
them most. Translated from the Norwegian by Alison McCullough
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