Repetition - Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund (Translator)

Category: General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Scandinavian Literature

Written by Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund (Translator)
Read by Nicole Poole
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

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, exposing a story both utterly familiar and desperately strange.

It was the year she first got drunk, the year she first had sex with a boy. She was watched like a hawk by an anxious mother and a silent, distant father. It was a year of typical teenage fixation and typical teenage frivolity, and of all the usual parental fretting. Until something else took hold, and her family made an unspoken decision and a terrible sacrifice. Only now, decades later, can these events come close to being comprehended.

In Repetition, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.

Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
Release date: 03-03-26