Linn Ullmann

'A masterpiece. It pushes the fused power of memoir and story to a new dimension' Ali Smith A heart-rending work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers ‘By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I’m trying to bring them together into one body – the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don’t know if it can be done' Paris, a winter’s 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 genre-defying 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 long-guarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward sixteen-year-old girl lost in Paris. Girl, 1983 is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness. ‘Ullmann’s gaze on the power and pain of a teenage girl as remembered and restaged by her adult self is unflinching and startling’ Deborah Levy

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, this subtle psychological thriller explores the gray areas between innocence and guilt, truth and lies. Siri Brodal, a chef and restaurant owner, is married to Jon Dreyer, a famous novelist plagued by writer's block. Siri and Jon have two daughters, and together they spend their summers on the coast of Norway, in a mansion belonging to Jenny Brodal, Siri's stylish and unforgiving mother. Siri and Jon's marriage is loving but difficult, and troubled by painful secrets. They have a strained relationship with their elder daughter, Alma, who struggles to find her place in the family constellation. When Milla is hired as a nanny to allow Siri to work her long hours at the restaurant and Jon to supposedly meet the deadline on his book, life in the idyllic summer community takes a dire turn. One rainy July night, Milla disappears without a trace. After her remains are discovered and a suspect is identified, everyone who had any connection with her feels implicated in her tragedy and haunted by what they could have done to prevent it. More than an absorbing mystery, The Cold Song is a story about telling stories and about how life is continually invented and reinvented.

"By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I'm trying to bring them together into one body--the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don't know if it can be done." Paris, a winter's 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 begin to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before. Set in Oslo, New York, and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a genre-defying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion. As in her landmark previous work, Unquiet, Linn Ullmann's narrator continues to probe the elegiac sway of memory as she looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward sixteen-year-old girl lost in Paris. Girl, 1983 is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.

'A masterpiece. It pushes the fused power of memoir and story to a new dimension' Ali SmithA heart-rending work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers‘By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I’m trying to bring them together into one body – the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don’t know if it can be done'Paris, a winter’s 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 genre-defying 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 long-guarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward sixteen-year-old girl lost in Paris. Girl, 1983 is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.‘Ullmann’s gaze on the power and pain of a teenage girl as remembered and restaged by her adult self is unflinching and startling’ Deborah Levy

Lin Ulman - odna iz samykh talantlivykh pisatelej nyneshnej Norvegii, avtor shesti romanov, opublikovannykh bolee chem v dvadtsati stranakh Evropy i SSHA. Po ee knigam postavleny spektakli i snjaty filmy. "Blagoslovennoe ditja" - odin iz luchshikh romanov Lin Ulman. Tri sestry sobirajutsja navestit ottsa, uedinenno zhivuschego na ostrove. Oni ne videli ego mnogo let, i eta poezdka predstavljaetsja im svoego roda proschaniem: otets star i zhit emu ostalos nedolgo. Sestry, kazhdaja po-svoemu, vspominajut poslednee leto, provedennoe imi na ostrove, omrachennoe tragicheskim i tainstvennym sluchaem, v kotorom zameshany vse. Perevodchik: Naumova Anastasija Vasilevna

A heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of the intricacies of family life, Unquiet is a stunning, genre- bending meditation on time, memory, and language, on growing up and growing old. "Ullmann has formed a book out of the explicit landmarks of her lived life. . . . The form of the book, however, isn't documentary, but, rather, fragmentary, the way memory is. . . . The clarity and lack of fetter is characteristic of Ullmann's way of seeing the world in prose." -Wyatt Mason, New York Times Magazine "[An] exquisite and warm novel. . . . Among Norway's contemporary writers, Ullmann might be the finest sentence by sentence." - John Freeman, LitHub "In its very form replicating the fitful progress of memory, it is written and translated . . . with care, insight, a keen sensitivity to the value of every word, and a generous embrace of human strength and weaknesses." - Lydia Davis, Times Literary Supplement

He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that she's grown up and he's in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that he's losing his language, his memory, his mind. Growing old is hard work, he says. They will write it together. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. When she finally comes to the island, bringing her tape recorder with her, old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen. Unquiet follows the narrator as she unearths these taped conversations seven years later. Swept into memory, she reimagines the story of a father, a mother, and a girl--a child who can't wait to grow up and parents who would rather be children. A heartbreaking and darkly funny depiction of the intricacies of family, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old. Linn Ullmann nimbly blends memoir and fiction in her most inventive novel yet, weaving a luminous meditation on language, mourning, and the many narratives that make up a life.

A haunting meditation on the beauty of life in the face of human mortality follows one man's search for meaning in the face of terminal cancer and the inevitable arrival of Death. By the author of Stella Descending. Reprint.

”Genom att skriva berättelsen så sannfärdigt jag kan, försöker jag samla dem i en kropp – kvinnan från 2021 och flickan från 1983. Jag vet inte om det är möjligt.” Paris 1983. Hon är 16 år och har gått vilse i vinternatten, på en lapp har hon adressen till den trettio år äldre fotografen. Nästan fyrtio år senare, medan hennes liv och världen krackelerar, försöker den vuxna kvinnan förstå flickan som en gång var hon själv. "Flicka, 1983" är en genreöverskridande resa genom minnena, en naken och stundtals brutal berättelse om makt och maktlöshet, lust och skam, skönhet och glömska.” Linn Ullmanns "Flicka, 1983" är en lika brutal som angelägen berättelse om ensamhet, utsatthet, längtan och skuld.” – Borås Tidning”Linn Ullmann lyckas raffinerat ta sig fram till den centrala bilden så många gånger och på så olika sätt att den till sist framstår som ett jättelikt pulserande konstverk, som det krävs en roman för att bearbeta. Flickan med strassörhängena. Mästerligt.” – Dagens Nyheter”När jag läst ut Linn Ullmanns sjunde roman, "Flicka, 1983", snurrar det i skallen. Det är som att bada i alldeles klart vatten och försöka minnas den senaste vågen man skvalpade runt i.” – Aftonbladet”Romanen Flicka, 1983 är lika grym som den är gripande.” – Västerbottens-Kuriren

Hypnoottinen romaani nuoruuden tukahdutetuista muistoista, jotka yhtäkkiä pulpahtavat pintaan. Pariisi, talviyö 1983. Kuusitoistavuotias tyttö on tullut malliksi haaveiden pääkaupunkiin. Paperilapulla hänellä on kolmekymmentä vuotta vanhemman valokuvaaja A:n osoite. Vuosikymmeniä myöhemmin nainen yrittää ymmärtää nuorta itseään samalla kun hänen nykyinen elämänsä on hajoamassa palasiksi. Linn Ullmannin parhaaksi romaaniksi ylistetty teos on vavahduttava kertomus vallasta ja voimattomuudesta, halusta ja häpeästä, kauneudesta ja unohtamisesta. ”Vuoden vahvin lukukokemus. Kun suljin viimeisen sivun, minun täytyi yksinkertaisesti itkeä 16-vuotiaan itseni puolesta.” - VG

Ny udgave - nyoversat af Karen Fastrup. Stella falder ned fra et tag i hjertet af Oslo. Snublede hun, blev hun skubbet eller sprang hun selv? Når jeg er hos dig er en både morsom og mørk roman, et hjertegribende studie i hengivenhed, kærlighed, højdeskræk og svimlende eksistentiel ensomhed.

”Genom att skriva berättelsen så sannfärdigt jag kan, försöker jag samla dem i en kropp – kvinnan från 2021 och flickan från 1983. Jag vet inte om det är möjligt.” Paris 1983. Hon är 16 år och har gått vilse i vinternatten, på en lapp har hon adressen till den trettio år äldre fotografen. Nästan fyrtio år senare, medan hennes liv och världen krackelerar, försöker den vuxna kvinnan förstå flickan som en gång var hon själv. "Flicka, 1983" är en genreöverskridande resa genom minnena, en naken och stundtals brutal berättelse om makt och maktlöshet, lust och skam, skönhet och glömska.” Linn Ullmanns "Flicka, 1983" är en lika brutal som angelägen berättelse om ensamhet, utsatthet, längtan och skuld.” – Borås Tidning”Linn Ullmann lyckas raffinerat ta sig fram till den centrala bilden så många gånger och på så olika sätt att den till sist framstår som ett jättelikt pulserande konstverk, som det krävs en roman för att bearbeta. Flickan med strassörhängena. Mästerligt.” – Dagens Nyheter”När jag läst ut Linn Ullmanns sjunde roman, "Flicka, 1983", snurrar det i skallen. Det är som att bada i alldeles klart vatten och försöka minnas den senaste vågen man skvalpade runt i.” – Aftonbladet”Romanen Flicka, 1983 är lika grym som den är gripande.” – Västerbottens-Kuriren

Genudgivelse i ny udgave. Jon Dreyers liv er ved at revne. Hans store litterære projekt skulle egentlig fuldføres for flere år siden. Han kæmper med skriveblokering og er sin kone utro. Alt begyndte, tænker han, da familiens barnepige, den nitten år gamle Mille, forsvandt uden et spor for så at blive fundet død to år senere. Jons kone, Siri Dreyer-Brodal, er en populær kok og restaurantejer, som har sit at kæmpe med. Ikke bare er hun gift med en troløs mand. Hun slås også med, hvordan skal hun forholde sig til sin på en gang stærke og utrøstelige mor, Jenny Brodal, som er begyndt at drikke igen efter 20 års ædruelighed. Og hverken Jon eller Siri aner, hvordan de skal håndtere deres uforudsigelige og uregerlige datter, Alma. Milles forsvinden, og uvisheden om hvad der skete, præger hele familien. Isnende langsomt afdækkes en historie om kærlighed og grådighed, hemmelige liv og smertefulde forbindelser. Det dyrebare er en besættende, kulsort og humoristisk roman om sorg og overlevelse, om en familie som bliver offer for sine egne hemmeligheder og om en brutal forbrydelse.

"Ved at skrive det der skete, ved at fortælle historien så sandfærdigt som jeg kan, forsøger jeg at samle dem i én krop – kvinden fra 2021 og pigen fra 1983. Jeg ved ikke om det er muligt." Paris, en vinternat i 1983. Pigen er seksten år og faret vild i de ukendte gader. På en seddel har hun adressen på A, en tredive år ældre fotograf. Næsten fire årtier senere, mens både hendes eget liv og verden udenfor krakelerer, prøver den voksne kvinde at forstå den unge pige, hun engang var. Pige, 1983 udspiller sig i Oslo, New York og Paris og er en genreoverskridende og besættende rejse gennem lag af minder og glemsel. Den norske forfatter Linn Ullmann udforsker på ny hukommelsens digteriske kraft i forsøget på at fortælle om det allerhemmeligste. Hun trækker linjer frem og tilbage i livsforløbet, linjer som også rækker helt tilbage til den vildfarne sekstenårige pige. En rå, nøgen og til tider brutal fortælling om magt og afmagt, lyst og skam, skønhed og glemsel. Bogen er oversat af Karen Fastrup.

Linn Ullmann har med stort alvor og svart humor skrevet en lysende øm fortelling om familie, glemsel og sorgarbeid, og om de mange historiene som utgjør et liv. Far og datter sitter med en båndopptager mellom seg. Planen var at de skulle dokumentere aldringen, i en bok de to skulle lage sammen. Men da de endelig er i gang, har alderdommen tatt tak i ham på en måte som gjør samtalene uforutsigbare og sprukne. «De urolige» er en leken, utforskende og sjangeroverskridende roman om et barn som ikke kan vente med å bli voksen, og foreldre som helst vil være barn, om minner og glemsel og de mange historiene som utgjør et liv.