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Ti Amo (Paperback)
Hanne Orstavik
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The protagonist of Ti Amo is a woman who is in a deep and real, but
relatively new relationship with a man from Milan. She has moved
there, they have married, and they are close in every way. Then he
is diagnosed with cancer. It's serious, but they try to go about
their lives as best they can. But when the doctor tells the woman
that her husband has less than a year to live - without telling the
husband - death comes between them. She knows it's coming, but he
doesn't - and he doesn't seem to want to know. Ti Amo is an
incredibly beautiful and harrowing novel, filled with tenderness
and grief, love and loneliness. It delves into the complex emotions
of bereavement, and in less than 100 pages manages to encapsulate
an extraordinary scope and depth, asking how and for whom we can
live, when the one we love best is about to die.
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 Orstavik's astonishing grasp of human fragility and
her economy of form power this acknowledged masterpiece of
Norwegian literature.
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The Blue Room (Paperback)
Hanne Orstavik; Translated by Deborah Dawkin
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A novel about a mother-daughter relationship that will send a chill
down your spine. Johanne is a young woman in her twenties who lives
with her mother. When she falls in love with Ivar, she finally
feels ready to leave home. The couple plan a trip to America. But
the morning of her departure, Johanne wakes up to find the door
locked. Can she overcome her fears? Will she shout for help? Will
she climb out of her fourth floor window? ------ Why Peirene chose
to publish this book: 'Everyone who has read Fifty Shades of Grey
should read this book. Why? The Blue Room holds up a mirror to a
part of the female psyche that yearns for submission. The story
shows how erotic fantasies are formed by the relationship with our
parents. It then delves further to analyse the struggle of women to
separate from their mothers - a struggle that is rarely addressed
in either literature or society.' Meike Ziervogel, Publisher
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