A masterpiece. It pushes the fused power of memoir and story to a new dimension Ali SmithA heartrending work of autofiction from one of Norways most prominent literary writersBy writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, Im trying to bring them together into one body the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I dont know if it can be doneParis, a winters night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begins to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before.Set in Oslo, New York and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a genredefying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion. As in her landmark previous work, Unquiet, Linn Ullmann continues to probe the elegiac sway of memory as she looks for ways to disclose a longguarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward sixteenyearold girl lost in Paris.Girl, 1983 is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.Ullmanns gaze on the power and pain of a teenage girl as remembered and restaged by her adult self is unflinching and startling Deborah Levy

Binding: Hardback;400 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 502 g; Dimensions: 223 x 146 x 27

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