Will and Testament - Couverture souple

Hjorth, Vigdis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178873310X ISBN 13 : 9781788733106

Editeur : Verso Books, 2019

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

This was a novel that people could enjoy either as high literature or as a work of down-and-dirty revenge. The tabloids loved it as much as the broadsheets, and it became the bestselling novel of the year.
--Guardian

An extraordinary book.
--Megan Nolan, New Statesman

Devastating
--Frieze

Will and Testament is a compulsively readable novel, one that turns questions of shame into weapons against silence.
--Paris Review

Will and Testament is a reminder that it's easier to hide darkness than face it ... Hjorth argues cogently that conflicts and atrocities often stem from what a nation represses or denies.
--Observer

Compelling ... Hjorth proves brilliant at revealing the stubborn, unredemptive quality of childhood suffering. --Lara Feigel, Guardian

Hjorth parcels out the secrets with a precision worthy of Ibsen, so that the level of suspense is maintained up to the very last of the 343 pages.
--Aftenposten

Its strong emotional truths take hold of you immediately even before the family secrets consequences are made apparent: I dogeared page after page to mark off insights, movements, formulations.
--Dagens Nyheter

Hjorth's thoughtful, drily funny, and often devastating novel will leave a deep and lasting impression on readers. --Publishers Weekly

Vigdis Hjorth's new novel is furious and wise, trembling and stringent. Will and Testaments examines who owns the past. This is the novel in weaponised form.
-- NRK

The strength of the novel lies in Bergljot's convincing and continuing vulnerability, in her mixed feelings and her flaws ... A clear-eyed and convincing story of a family's doomed attempt to reconcile and the limits of forgiveness.
--Kirkus

Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers.
---Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?

In a ruthless yet patiently delivered work, Hjorth does something that few writers achieve: Will and Testament is both economical and overwhelming. --Elsa Court, Financial Times

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a dispute over her parents will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favouritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture as something very different a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured. Will and Testament is a lyrical meditation on trauma and memory, as well as a furious account of a woman's struggle to survive and be believed. Vigdis Hjorth's novel became a controversial literary sensation in Norway and has been translated into twenty languages.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 178873310X
• ISBN 13: 9781788733106
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336