Ullmann’s characters are complex and paradoxical: neither fully guilty nor fully innocent Siri Brodal, a chef and restaurant owner, is married to Jon Dreyer, a famous novelist plagued by writer’s bl
The idea was to write a book about old age, because growing old, her father said, is hard work. They would meet at his beloved house on a Swedish island, surrounded by pines, cliffs, and the Baltic Se
“Didionesque.” —New York Times Book ReviewA heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of the intricacies of family life, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing
A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost from the internationally acclaimed author of Grace and Stella Descending.Every summer Isak Lovenstad gathers his three daughters by different wi
Johan has sometimes been fortunate but never particularly successful: he lost his job for a breach of professional integrity, and he and his son haven’t spoken in eight years. His greatest happiness–
Three generations of Norwegian women struggle to find love and self-satisfaction in a moody, sexually candid novel about marriage and infidelity, which was hailed as a "masterpiece" by European critic
In the wake of Stella's death in a suspicious falling accident, details about Stella's life are remembered by the people she has left behind, who reveal her to be a jealous wife, compliant mistress, t
