Unquiet : a novel /
Ullmann, Linn, 1966-
Unquiet : a novel / Linn Ullmann ; translated from the Norwegian by Thilo Reinhard. - 392 pages ; 22 cm
"Originally published in Norwegian as De Urolige" -- Title verso page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-392).
"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" -- Front jacket flap.
In English, translated from the Norwegian.
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Autobiography--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Unquiet : a novel / Linn Ullmann ; translated from the Norwegian by Thilo Reinhard. - 392 pages ; 22 cm
"Originally published in Norwegian as De Urolige" -- Title verso page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-392).
"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" -- Front jacket flap.
In English, translated from the Norwegian.
9780393609943 0393609944
2018043712
Autobiography--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.