Oyehaug Gunnhild - Present Tense Machine A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An ingenious pocket universe. Caitlin Horrocks The New York Times Book Review Gunnhild yehaug is a magician of the highest rank. Catherine Lacey On an ordinary day in Bergen Norway in the late 1990s Anna is reading in the garden while her two - year - old daughter Laura plays on her tricycle. Then in one startling moment Anna misreads a word an alternate universe opens up and Laura disappears. Twenty years or so later life has gone on as if nothing happened. In each of the women's lives however something is not quite right. Both Anna and Laura continue to exist but they are invisible to each other and forgotten in each other's worlds. Both are writers and amateur pianists. Both are married; Anna had two more children after Laura disappeared and Laura is expecting a child of her own. They worry about their families their jobs the climate and whether this reality is all there is. In the exquisite wistful slyly profound Present Tense Machine Gunnhild yehaug delivers another dazzling renovation of what fiction can do a testament to the fact that language shapes the world.
Title: Present Tense Machine A Novel
Author(s): Oyehaug Gunnhild
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250862983
Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/10/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction