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Unquiet (Paperback)
Linn Ullmann
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R215
R186
Discovery Miles 1 860
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'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth.
I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters'
RACHEL CUSK He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for
everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and
once loved. Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visits the
father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic
Sea. Now that she's grown up - a writer, with children of her own -
and he's in his eighties, they envision writing a book together,
about old age, language, memory and loss. She will ask the
questions. He will answer them. The tape recorder will record. But
it's winter now and old age has caught up with him in ways neither
could have foreseen. And when the father is gone, only memories,
images and words -- both remembered and recorded - remain. And from
these the daughter begins to write her own story, in the pages
which become this book. Heart-breaking and spell-binding, Unquiet
is a seamless blend of fiction and memoir in pursuit of elemental
truths about how we live, love, lose and age.
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Unquiet (Paperback)
Linn Ullmann
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R330
R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
Save R45 (14%)
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Ships in 5 - 10 working days
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'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth.
I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters'
RACHEL CUSK He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for
everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and
once loved. Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visits the
father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic
Sea. Now that she's grown up - a writer, with children of her own -
and he's in his eighties, they envision writing a book together,
about old age, language, memory and loss. She will ask the
questions. He will answer them. The tape recorder will record. But
it's winter now and old age has caught up with him in ways neither
could have foreseen. And when the father is gone, only memories,
images and words -- both remembered and recorded - remain. And from
these the daughter begins to write her own story, in the pages
which become this book. Heart-breaking and spell-binding, Unquiet
is a seamless blend of fiction and memoir in pursuit of elemental
truths about how we live, love, lose and age.
A Blessed Child" "is a haunting parable of innocence lost from the
internationally acclaimed author of "Grace "and "Stella
Descending."
Every summer Isak Lovenstad gathers his three daughters by
different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarso. Here
Erika, Laura, and Molly find a sense of family and friendship,
although nothing can match Erika's connection to the rebellious
misfit Ragnar. But when an act of senseless cruelty separates them
forever--and drives the sisters from the island in shame and
regret--they must leave childhood and their growing relationships
behind. Now, twenty-five years later, they return to visit their
ailing father and confront the specter of that awful summer.
Johan has sometimes been fortunate but never particularly
successful: he lost his job for a breach of professional integrity,
and he and his son haven't spoken in eight years. His greatest
happiness-his grace-is his competent, confident wife Mai, who loves
him unreservedly. Now, with six months to live, and with Mai's
help, he intends to die well. But as he broods on the pleasures and
regrets of his life, and death slowly envelops him, Johan's
resolution begins to waver.
Morally intricate and full of sly humor, "Grace" is a touching and
unexpectedly dramatic exploration of the territory between life and
death.
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