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Hjorth Vigdis
Will And Testament
Will And Testament
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Binding: Paperback
Description: Longlisted for The Millions Best Translated Book Awards for Fiction Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a dispute over her parents will grows bitter Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders it is a quarrel about property and favouritism. But Bergljot who has borne a horrible secret since childhood understands the gesture as something very different a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured. Will and Testament is a lyrical meditation on trauma and memory as well as a furious account of a woman's struggle to survive and be believed. Vigdis Hjorth's novel became a controversial literary sensation in Norway and has been translated into twenty languages.
Title: Will And Testament
Author(s): Hjorth Vigdis
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781788733106
Pages: 336 Pages, Paperback With Flaps
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/10/2019
Series: Verso Fiction
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: Longlisted for The Millions Best Translated Book Awards for Fiction Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a dispute over her parents will grows bitter Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders it is a quarrel about property and favouritism. But Bergljot who has borne a horrible secret since childhood understands the gesture as something very different a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured. Will and Testament is a lyrical meditation on trauma and memory as well as a furious account of a woman's struggle to survive and be believed. Vigdis Hjorth's novel became a controversial literary sensation in Norway and has been translated into twenty languages.
Title: Will And Testament
Author(s): Hjorth Vigdis
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781788733106
Pages: 336 Pages, Paperback With Flaps
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/10/2019
Series: Verso Fiction
Category: Fiction In Translation