Kirjahaku

'A masterpiece. It pushes the fused power of memoir and story to a new dimension' Ali SmithA heart-rending work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers‘By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I’m trying to bring them together into one body – the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don’t know if it can be done'Paris, a winter’s night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begins to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before.Set in Oslo, New York and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a genre-defying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion. As in her landmark previous work, Unquiet, Linn Ullmann continues to probe the elegiac sway of memory as she looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward sixteen-year-old girl lost in Paris.Girl, 1983 is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.‘Ullmann’s gaze on the power and pain of a teenage girl as remembered and restaged by her adult self is unflinching and startling’ Deborah Levy

'A masterpiece. It pushes the fused power of memoir and story to a new dimension' Ali Smith A heart-rending work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers ‘By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I’m trying to bring them together into one body – the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don’t know if it can be done' Paris, a winter’s night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begins to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before. Set in Oslo, New York and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a genre-defying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion. As in her landmark previous work, Unquiet, Linn Ullmann continues to probe the elegiac sway of memory as she looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward sixteen-year-old girl lost in Paris. Girl, 1983 is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness. ‘Ullmann’s gaze on the power and pain of a teenage girl as remembered and restaged by her adult self is unflinching and startling’ Deborah Levy

A captivating story of sisterhood and of the inescapable chords of childhood memory. "A hauntingly beautiful novel of family ties, A Blessed Child takes on what it means to be old, what it means to have loved selfishly, deeply and -- equally - to no longer love." - A.M. Homes, author of The Mistress's Daughter Every summer Isak L venstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammars . Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erika's bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnar's outcast state, she suddenly turns away--a common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isak's family. Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammars to see their father--now eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile there--the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried. Bold and starkly beautiful, A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost.

A heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of the intricacies of family life, Unquiet is a stunning, genre- bending meditation on time, memory, and language, on growing up and growing old. "Ullmann has formed a book out of the explicit landmarks of her lived life. . . . The form of the book, however, isn't documentary, but, rather, fragmentary, the way memory is. . . . The clarity and lack of fetter is characteristic of Ullmann's way of seeing the world in prose." -Wyatt Mason, New York Times Magazine "[An] exquisite and warm novel. . . . Among Norway's contemporary writers, Ullmann might be the finest sentence by sentence." - John Freeman, LitHub "In its very form replicating the fitful progress of memory, it is written and translated . . . with care, insight, a keen sensitivity to the value of every word, and a generous embrace of human strength and weaknesses." - Lydia Davis, Times Literary Supplement

He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that she's grown up and he's in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that he's losing his language, his memory, his mind. Growing old is hard work, he says. They will write it together. She will ask the questions. He will answer them.When she finally comes to the island, bringing her tape recorder with her, old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen.Unquiet follows the narrator as she unearths these taped conversations seven years later. Swept into memory, she reimagines the story of a father, a mother, and a girl--a child who can't wait to grow up and parents who would rather be children.A heartbreaking and darkly funny depiction of the intricacies of family, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old. Linn Ullmann nimbly blends memoir and fiction in her most inventive novel yet, weaving a luminous meditation on language, mourning, and the many narratives that make up a life.

"By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I'm trying to bring them together into one body--the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don't know if it can be done." Paris, a winter's night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begin to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before.Set in Oslo, New York, and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a genre-defying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion. As in her landmark previous work, Unquiet, Linn Ullmann's narrator continues to probe the elegiac sway of memory as she looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward sixteen-year-old girl lost in Paris. Girl, 1983 is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.

A haunting meditation on the beauty of life in the face of human mortality follows one man's search for meaning in the face of terminal cancer and the inevitable arrival of Death. By the author of Stella Descending. Reprint.

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, this subtle psychological thriller explores the gray areas between innocence and guilt, truth and lies. Siri Brodal, a chef and restaurant owner, is married to Jon Dreyer, a famous novelist plagued by writer's block. Siri and Jon have two daughters, and together they spend their summers on the coast of Norway, in a mansion belonging to Jenny Brodal, Siri's stylish and unforgiving mother. Siri and Jon's marriage is loving but difficult, and troubled by painful secrets. They have a strained relationship with their elder daughter, Alma, who struggles to find her place in the family constellation. When Milla is hired as a nanny to allow Siri to work her long hours at the restaurant and Jon to supposedly meet the deadline on his book, life in the idyllic summer community takes a dire turn. One rainy July night, Milla disappears without a trace. After her remains are discovered and a suspect is identified, everyone who had any connection with her feels implicated in her tragedy and haunted by what they could have done to prevent it. More than an absorbing mystery, The Cold Song is a story about telling stories and about how life is continually invented and reinvented.

Lin Ulman - odna iz samykh talantlivykh pisatelej nyneshnej Norvegii, avtor shesti romanov, opublikovannykh bolee chem v dvadtsati stranakh Evropy i SSHA. Po ee knigam postavleny spektakli i snjaty filmy. "Blagoslovennoe ditja" - odin iz luchshikh romanov Lin Ulman.Tri sestry sobirajutsja navestit ottsa, uedinenno zhivuschego na ostrove. Oni ne videli ego mnogo let, i eta poezdka predstavljaetsja im svoego roda proschaniem: otets star i zhit emu ostalos nedolgo. Sestry, kazhdaja po-svoemu, vspominajut poslednee leto, provedennoe imi na ostrove, omrachennoe tragicheskim i tainstvennym sluchaem, v kotorom zameshany vse.Perevodchik: Naumova Anastasija Vasilevna

DIGIKORT/MINNEKORT. Den unge kvinnen Mille forsvinner sporløst en regnværskveld i juli, og det som er igjen av henne blir funnet flere år senere av tre gutter som skal grave opp en skatt i skogen. Mille ble sist sett på Jenny Brodals storslagne 85-årsfest for familie og venner. Forsvinningen smitter av på alle som var i kontakt med henne: De som ville ha henne, de som lette etter henne, de som drepte henne, de som forsøkte å glemme henne, de som sørget over henne, de som fant henne, de som vendte henne ryggen. Gradvis avdekkes en historie om kjærlighet, uro og bedrag, om hemmelige liv og smertefulle forbindelser. "Det dyrebare" er historien om alt som ledet frem til Milles forsvinning og om alt som kom etterpå. Om hvordan Mille, som ingen regnet med, setter alt og alle i bevegelse og om hvordan uvissheten fortsetter å bryte ned alt rundt seg.

Jon Dreyers liv er i ferd med å rakne. Han kjemper med skrivesperre og er stadig utro. Alt begynte da nitten år gamle Mille forsvant uten et spor, for så å bli funnet død to år seinere. Jons kone, Siri Dreyer-Brodal, har sine egne stridigheter å overkomme. Ikke bare er hun gift med en troløs mann, men hvordan skal hun forholde seg til den sterke og utrøstelige moren, Jenny Brodal, som begynner å drikke igjen etter å ha vært tørrlagt i tjue år, akkurat i tide til den lenge planlagte 75-årsfeiringen? Og verken Jon eller Siri aner hvordan de skal håndtere den uregjerlige datteren Alma. Milles forsvinning og uvissheten om hva som skjedde, preger alle som var berørt av henne. Gradvis avdekkes en historie om kjærlighet og grådighet, om hemmelige liv og smertefulle forbindelser. Linn Ullmann har skrevet en besettende, beksvart og humoristisk roman om sorg og overlevelse, om en familie som blir offer for sine egne hemmeligheter og om en brutal forbrytelse.

"slår an sinnets dypeste strenger, så man rystes og jubler" IDE HEJLSKOV, BERLINGSKE TIDENDE. Sommeren 1979 skjer det noe forferdelig på den vakre og værbitte øya Hammarsö i Østersjøen. Hvert år har halvsøstrene Erika, Laura og Molly tilbrakt sommeren her hos sin temperamentsfulle far, Isak Lövenstad. De tre unge jentene inngår skiftende og uforutsigbare allianser med andre sommergjester, blant annet med Ragnar, gutten som alltid løper og som på merkelig vis trekkes mot Isak. Ingen tar på seg skylden for det som hender denne sommeren, og det skal gå mer enn tjuefem år før søstrene vender tilbake til øya, denne gangen for å besøke sin gamle far.

De urolige av Linn Ullmann er nominert til Nordisk Råds litteraturpris 2016, Kritikerprisen 2015 og vinner av P2-lytternes romanpris 2015.Syv år etter at faren hennes døde, dukket båndopptakeren opp i en kasse på loftet. Han hadde ønsket å "organisere epilogen", dokumentere aldringen, i en bok han og hun skulle lage sammen. Han var bestemt, nysgjerrig, punktlig og gammel. Det skulle være de to og en båndopptaker. Det skulle være håndterlig og kontrollert, og i henhold til planene. De hadde regler for alt, ikke minst for hvordan man tilbrakte tid sammen. Hun skulle stille spørsmålene, han skulle svare. Han sa hun kunne spørre om hva som helst, men hun var ikke sikker på om det var sant. Hun vokste opp med kunstnerforeldre og ble selv forfatter. Hun lærte tidlig at det ikke var så lett å skille mellom hva som var sant og hva som ikke var det. Livet med foreldrene var en øvelse i å omsette erfaringer til historier og bilder. Hun tegnet kart og førte lister for å mestre vekslingen mellom det uforanderlige livet med faren på en karrig øy i Østersjøen og det omflakkende livet med moren i Norge og USA. Da de endelig sitter med båndopptakeren mellom seg, har alderdommen tatt tak i ham på en måte som gjør samtalene uforutsigbare og sprukne. De foregår på et språk ingen av dem helt behersker, og tar dem til steder de aldri tidligere har vært sammen: mellom klarhet og drøm, dikt og virkelighet. "De urolige" er historien om barnet som ikke kan vente med å bli voksen, og om foreldrene som helst vil være barn. Den utspiller seg i spennet mellom livsvilje og dødsdrift og forholder seg gjennom seks deler på ulike måter til tid, lek, kunst, identitet og kjærlighet. Linn Ullmann har med stort alvor og svart humor skrevet en lysende øm fortelling om familie, glemsel og sorgarbeid, og om de mange historiene som utgjør et liv.