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One of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness...

Ellinor, a thirty-five-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognize the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she's ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months.

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial modern classic, Will and Testament.

When a dispute over her parents’ will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled 20 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 favoritism. 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.

Johanna ist keine gute Tochter. Um sich zu retten, hat sie die Familie verlassen. Jetzt, dreißig Jahre später, ist sie wieder zu Hause. Sie sucht Nähe, sie will den Kontakt zur Mutter erzwingen, doch die verweigert sich kühl jeder Annäherung. Heimgesucht von den Erinnerungen an die Kindheit zieht Johanna sich in eine einsame Hütte am Fjord zurück, wo es an ihr ist, die Verhältnisse zu ordnen und sich aus den familiären Zwängen zu befreien.

Ellen är fjorton, snart femton och bor med sina föräldrar i ett stort litet hus. Den sommaren, sommaren då hennes mormor dog och hennes föräldrar åkte bort och lämnade Ellen hos mostern, förändrades något inom henne. Inte bara inom henne, utan det var så påtagligt att alla vuxna runt om henne började oroa sig och leta efter hemligheter i Ellens mörka ögon. Det var som om världen fick ett nytt skimmer.

Henrik er baseret på Ibsens drama Hedda Gabler. På forrygende klog og morsom vis har Vigdis Hjorth her i romanformen flyttet dramaet op i nutiden og ladet hovedpersonen skifte køn. Vigdis Hjorth er optaget af, hvordan trivialiteterne fylder i tilværelsen og i Henrik udforsker hun blandt andet, hvordan "den store mandlige vision" har det svært i dag. Henrik Falk er blevet gift med Elsa Brun Hansen - nu Elsa Falk. Hun er fra en mere prosaisk familie, der ejer byens benzintank.

A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth. It asks, can passion be mistaken for love? And proceeds to document the destruction a decade defined by such a misconstruction can yield on a life.

Cuatro hermanos, dos casas de verano en Hvaler y un terrible secreto. El reparto de la herencia familiar se convertirá en un tema de desencuentro. La aparente disputa entre los hermanos por las propiedades encierra algo mucho más profundo: los fantasmas del pasado regresan y lo que parecía...

A Oslo, una scrittrice sessantenne assiste come tutti gli anni a un concerto di Natale; siede accanto a una coppia accompagnata dalla figlia adolescente, che si mostra palesemente infastidita e viene rimproverata di continuo dalla madre. La scena fa scattare nella donna il ricordo dei suoi sedici anni, e il lettore viene catapultato nel racconto del suo passato: un’adolescenza su cui grava una figura materna opprimente, che controlla la figlia in maniera ossessiva, terrorizzata al pensiero che possa bere, fare sesso, assumere droghe.