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Love | Hanne Orstavik
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A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their distance has fatal consequences. Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norway. It's the day before Jon's birthday, and a travelling carnival has come to the village. Jon goes out to sell lottery tickets for his sports club, and Vibeke is going to the library. From here on we follow the two individuals on their separate journeys through a cold winter's night - while a sense of uneasiness grows. Love illustrates how language builds its own reality, and thus how mother and son can live in completely separate worlds. This distance is found not only between human beings, but also within each individual. This novel shows how such distance may have fatal consequences.
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JenniferP
Love | Hanne Orstavik
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I thought this novella was excellent. It follows a young mother and her son who is about to turn nine through one dramatic night. The prose switches seamlessly between their experiences as they move about their new town separately, late into the cold night. #archipelegobooks

BarbaraBB 🥰🥰 2y
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GatheringBooks
Love | Hanne Orstavik
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#GratefulReads Day 11: This thin novella has #CharacterYouHateToLove. A single mother and her young son have just moved to a small, seemingly-remote town in Norway where people seem to know everybody else. The boy who is about to celebrate his 9th birthday is convinced that his mother has something special planned out for him; while the mother has seemed to have completely forgotten about it. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kS1

OriginalCyn620 👍🏻📚🖤 5y
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This is a really short novel (novella?) About a mother and son who go about their day. The tone is really creepy, I was on pins and needles waiting to find out what would happen to them as their day diverged from each other. Very tense and suspenseful, with sparse language. Fits the read harder 2019 book in translation by a woman.

Emilymdxn I saw this in bookshops and didn‘t realise it was originally in another language! Excitedly stacked 6y
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