The Magnolia Woman (Innbundet)

Author:

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Norwegian title: Magnoliadamen
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2025
Pages: 96
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
ISBN/EAN: 9788202881788
Overview Magnoliadamen

Heline is most beautiful in the spring. She's already started to get buds on her neck. In a fortnight, her long, green hair will be full of white flowers. Heline is 10% magnolia.

Kaj lives on the outskirts of civilisation, or what's left of it, with Heline and the cat, Zakkeus. In their world, some people have taken on genetic material from plants and animals, and this material is gradually taking over. Both Kaj and Heline know that there isn't much time left before she isn't 10%, but 100% plant. Until it might just be Kaj and the cat. But they choose to do the best they can, live as well as they can, together, even though the wildfires are becoming an ever-greater threat, it occasionally rains acid from the sky, spooky creatures roam the forest, and the food deliveries by drone become fewer and eventually stop altogether.

The Magnolia Woman is a story about who we become when the world falls apart, but most of all: who we should be, can be, if we retain our dignity, love and curiosity. In classic Bringsværdian style, this little story is in a big story. It is a story for our time, and a story for eternity, a story about what it means to be human.

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Reviews Magnoliadamen

«Det er trist som faen og vakkert som bare juling å lese 'Magnoliadamen'.»

«... en vakker liten bok, som handler om å forsone seg med sin skjebne, det livet man har valgt og et ønske om å finne ro og tilhørighet.»

«... et mer enn verdig punktum for et fantastisk forfatterskap.»

 
Ole Jacob Hoel, Adresseavisen

Fin sistebok fra fabelsjefen 12.08.2025

«Tor Åge Bringsværds siste bok sjarmerer.»

«... en fin liten fortelling.»

Gerd Elin Stava Sandve, Dagsavisen

Trist og vakker slutt 09.08.2025

«En rar, men vakker siste bok fra den produktive forfatteren Tor Åge Bringsværd.»

Jan Øyvind Helgesen, Nettavisen

Under­fundig fremtids­fabel 07.08.2025

«Bringsværds siste fortelling er umiskjennelig bringsværdsk: underlig, original og uforutsigbar ...

uten å røpe for mye, berører avslutningen på denne sjarmerende lille boken på symbolsk vis nettopp overgangen mellom liv og død og det som eventuelt lever videre.
... For de som liker science fiction eller «fabel­prosa», som Bringsværd sammen med sin nære kollega Jon Bing en gang titulerte det på norsk, er dette stimulerende saker. ...
Det dystopiske fremtids­universet er skrevet frem med overskudd og en fin balanse mellom engstelig advarsel og glimt i øyet.
...en svært meningsfull avslutning på et forbløffende og uhyre originalt forfatterskap.»

Jonas Hansen Meyer, NRK

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Author Tor Åge Bringsværd

Tor Åge Bringsværd (1939-2025) was one of Norway's most productive and versatile authors and playwrights. Since his debut in 1967, Bringsværd has written over 350 books for adults and children in many different literary genres; novels, short stories, drama, picture books, fables, science fiction, essays, anthologies, general non-fiction and textbooks.

Bringsværd's work is critically acclaimed and earned a number of prestigious prizes, such as the Critics' Prize, the Riverton Prize, the Aschehoug Prize, the Dobloug Prize, the National Language Prize and the Ibsen Prize. In 2024, Tor Åge Bringsværd was appointed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

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