Repetition

By: Hjorth, Vigdis

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FBVQ6VBH
• ISBN13: 9781804298947
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Verso Fiction
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"