Hush (Heftet)

Author:

Vigdis Hjorth

Norwegian title: Hysj
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Binding: Heftet
Year: 2018
Pages: 96
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
ISBN/EAN: 9788202583354
Overview Hysj

Something happens that makes the prostitute start spying on one of her customers, a family man residing in the wealthy area of Frogner in Oslo. The summer is warm; there is a smell of flowers and dust in the calm streets. Here a grim drama takes place, with a brutal outcome.
...that it is possible to write something so beautiful about something as awful as the inevitable loneliness of man.
BERGENS TIDENDE

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Author Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth (b. 1959) has over several decades been one of Norway’s most important authors. She published her debut in 1983 in form of the children’s book Pelle-Ragnar and the Yellow Building, for which she received the Norwegian Cultural Council’s Debut Prize. Since then, she has had a prolific and award-winning authorship, writing for both children and adults. She has won several awards in Norway and has been nominated twice for the Nordic Council Literature Prize so far, for Will and Testament (2016) and Is Mother Dead (2020).

Hjorth writes existential books about human conditions and life choices, and throws a sharp gaze at current topics in the contemporary time. With novels such as Long Live the Post Horn! (2012) she has made her mark as a fearless political author. Her big breakthrough came in 2016 with Will and Testament, which became an instant favourite among literature critics as well as a huge sales success. In this novel Hjorth writes about complicated family relationships, about violation and liberation in close relationships, and the right to own one’s own story. Will and Testament was nominated for the National Book Award and Millions Best Translated Book Award when it was published in the US and the UK in 2019. In 2022 Is Mother Dead came out in English, and it was longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Award. Hjorth’s novels have been translated into more than 30 languages.

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