Author: Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564787028
Size: 27.15 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
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The highly acclaimed debut of one of Norway's brightest talents.
The Faster I Walk The Smaller I Am Norwegian Literature Series
The highly acclaimed debut of one of Norway's brightest talents.
The Child
Author: Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1783785489
Size: 64.85 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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A young mother speaks to her second born child. Since the drama of childbirth, all feels calm. The world is new and full of surprises, even though dangers lurk behind every corner; a car out of control, disease ever-present in the air, the unforgiving speed of time. She tells of the times before the child was born, when the world felt unsure and enveloped in darkness, of long nights with an older lover, of her writing career and the precariousness of beginning a relationship and then a family with her husband, Bo. A portrait of modern motherhood, THE CHILD is a love story about what it means to be alive and stay alive, no matter how hard the journey.
Monsterhuman
Author: Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Publisher: Norwegian Literature
ISBN: 9781628971804
Size: 42.22 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 525
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When Kjersti A. Skomsvold was seventeen years old and about to start engineering studies at college, she found herself almost unable to move. "Laid out like a relic" in a nursing home, she listens to an old woman dying, watches her boyfriend drift away, and makes compendious lists of her worries (that she will have to go speed-dating in a wheelchair, that she will be afraid and in pain for the rest of her life). She also begins to compose a novel on Post-it notes that she sticks on the wall above her bed. Monsterhuman is an autofictional tour de force--a funny, sad, astoundingly energetic novel about suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, the power of writing, and twenty-first-century literary life.
Am I A Redundant Human Being
Author: Mela Hartwig
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785815
Size: 76.34 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
View: 6315
For the first time in English, a contemporary and friend of Virginia Woolf and Stefan Zweig gives us the definitive portrait of a woman lost on the margins of modern life.
The Brahmadells
Author: Jóanes Nielsen
Publisher: Open Letter Books
ISBN: 9781940953663
Size: 38.18 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
View: 5088
"One of the first Faroese books to be translated into English, The Brahmadells is an epic novel chronicling the lives of a particular family--nicknamed "the Brahmadells"--against the larger history of the Faroe Islands, from the time of Danish rule, through its national awakening, to its independence. Filled with colorful characters and various family intrigues, the novel incorporates a number of genres and styles as it shifts from individual stories to larger world issues. There are historical documents, including nineteenth-century medical journals, documents detailing the lives of real historical figures, digressions about religion, a measles outbreak, and many other travails, large and small. Epic in its scope, importance, and literary approach, The Brahmadells is a playful, engrossing look at life in an island nation whose rich history is relatively unknown to most English readers"--
Justine
Author: Iben Mondrup
Publisher: Open Letter Books
ISBN: 9781940953489
Size: 41.72 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
View: 868
A stylistically brilliant look at the male-dominated art world, madness, and identity.
Je Schneller Ich Gehe Desto Kleiner Bin Ich
Author: Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
Publisher: Hoffmann und Campe
ISBN: 3455810276
Size: 67.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 144
View: 2942
Mathea Martinsen ist fast hundert Jahre alt, lebt am Stadtrand von Oslo und hat gerade ihren geliebten Mann verloren. Für wen soll sie nach dem Tod des schrulligen Statistikers jetzt ihre Ohrenwärmer stricken? Mit wem kann sie nun über das Leben philosophieren? Matheas Versuche, ins Leben zurückzufinden, rühren und amüsieren zu Tränen. "Ich wünschte, ich könnte den kleinen Rest vom Leben aufsparen, bis ich weiß, was ich damit anfangen soll. Aber das geht nicht, dafür müsste ich mich schon einfrieren, und wir haben nur eines dieser kleinen Gefrierfächer über dem Kühlschrank ..." Mathea Martinsen will ihre verbleibende Lebenszeit gut nutzen - aber wie? Schon die Teilnahme an einer Tombola im Seniorenzentrum misslingt, weil man prompt ihre eigene Jacke verlost. Und ist eine im Garten vergrabene Zeitkapsel mit ihrem Hochzeitskleid und selbstgestrickten Ohrenwärmern das richtige Mittel, ihr Andenken für die Nachwelt zu bewahren? Mit Humor und großer Zärtlichkeit zeichnet der Roman das Bild einer schüchternen alten Dame, die es noch einmal wissen will.
Rehabilitation Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 44.77 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Replacement
Author: Tor Ulven
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 1564787486
Size: 34.41 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
View: 5241
Replacement, Ulven’s only novel, is a miniature symphony, uniting the perspectives of fifteen unrelated characters into what seems a single narrative voice, dramatizing the tension between concrete realities and our interior lives.
Dress Code
Author: Mari Grinde Arntzen
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780234627
Size: 30.27 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 128
View: 1823
As Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Fashion is a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months.” And yet it serves to make us beautiful, or at least make us feel beautiful. In this book, Mari Grinde Arntzen asks how and why this is—how can fashion simultaneously attract us to its glamour and repel us with its superficiality and how being called “fashionable” can be at once a compliment and an insult. Arntzen guides us through the major figures and brands of today’s fashion industry, showing how they shape us and in turn why we love to be shaped by them. She examines both everyday, affordable “fast fashion” brands, as well as the luxury market, to show how fashion commands a powerful influence on every socioeconomic level of our society. Stepping into our closets with us, she thinks about what happens when we get dressed: why fashion can make us feel powerful, beautiful, and original at the same time that it forces us into conformity. Stripping off the layers of the world’s fifth largest industry, garment by garment, she holds fashion up as a phenomenon, business, and art, exploring the questions it forces us to ask about the body, image, celebrity, and self-obsession. Ultimately, Arntzen asks the most direct question: what is fashion? How has it taken such a powerful hold on the world, forever propelling us toward its concepts of beauty?
Flying Magazine
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ISBN:
Size: 36.77 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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A Philosophy Of Evil
Author: Lars Fr. H. Svendsen
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785718
Size: 57.52 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
View: 4617
"Svendsen has a way with words, and, unlike many writers of philosophy books, is also blessed with a sly wit and a thorough knowledge of popular culture."-Phil Miller, The Glasgow Herald
