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The Child

English

By (author): Kjersti A. Skomsvold

Translated by: Martin Aitken

A young mother speaks to her second born child. Since the drama of childbirth, all feels calm. The world is new and full of surprises, even though dangers lurk behind every corner; a car out of control, disease ever-present in the air, the unforgiving speed of time. She tells of the times before the child was born, when the world felt unsure and enveloped in darkness, of long nights with an older lover, of her writing career and the precariousness of beginning a relationship and then a family with her husband, Bo. A portrait of modern motherhood, THE CHILD is a love story about what it means to be alive and stay alive, no matter how hard the journey. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 230g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 May 2021
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781783785469

About Kjersti A. Skomsvold

Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold made a sensational debut with The Faster I Walk the Smaller I Am published by Dalkey Press in English. The book won the Vesaas First Book Award was shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize and has been sold to publishers in more than 25 countries. She is the author of four acclaimed novels a book of poetry and a children's book. Martin Aitken is a translator of Scandinavian literature whose translations include work by Karl Ove Knausgaard Olga Ravn Hanne Ørstavik and Kim Leine. He was shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award in 2017 was a finalist at the US National Book Awards in 2018 and received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019. He lives in Denmark.

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