In a saga sparkling with wisdom, wit and style, Linn Ullmann explores the emotional terrain of marriage and motherhood with wicked humour and a tender eye for human frailty. `Striking . . . a haunted, melancholy story of wandering parents and wayward...
Stella descends, over and over, in the course of this haunting novel. She falls from the womb, since her mother gives birth standing up; she falls for Martin, who delivers her new green sofa and refuses to leave; she falls ill and eventually recovers...
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 un...
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 plagu...
This stunning novel explores desire and anxiety, beauty and youth, memory and power.“By writing down what happened, by telling the story . . . I’m trying to bring them together into one body -- the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don’...