The Looking-Glass Sisters
Published on 25. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
190 pages
978-1-908670-24-3 (ISBN)
Description
A tragic love story about two sisters who cannot live with or without each other. Far out on the plains of northern Norway stands a house. It belongs to two middle-aged sisters. They seldom venture out and nobody visits. The older needs nursing and the younger keeps house. Then, one day, a man arrives...------- Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'This is a tragedy about a woman who yearns for love but ends up in a painfully destructive conflict with her sister. It is also a story about loneliness - both geographical and psychological. Facing the prospect of a life without love, we fall back into isolating delusions at exactly the moment when we need to connect.' Meike Ziervogel, Publisher
Reviews / Votes
'The sisters' violent intimacy has its own power, but the real strength of this book lies in the way so much is withheld.' DAILY MAIL ------------- 'A work of intelligence, empathy, intensity and exceptional beauty and originality.' Pam Norfolk, LANCASHIRE EVENING POST ---------------- 'Excellently translated by John Irons, Gabrielsen's novel disturbs and challenges. Once we have begun, though, it is near impossible to pull away.' THE NATIONALMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-908670-24-3 (9781908670243)
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Gohril Gabrielsen, born in 1961, grew up in Finnmark, the northernmost county in Norway, and currently lives in Oslo. She won Aschehoug's First Book Award for her 2006 novel Unevnelige hendelser (Unspeakable Events), and was the recipient of the Tanum Scholarship for Women. Since the publication of her debut novel she has brought out two further books to great acclaim in her native Norway, Svimlende muligheter, ingen frykt (The Looking-Glass Sisters) and Skadedyr (Vermin). Her fourth novel is due out in 2015.