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The Blue Room

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By (author): Hanne Orstavik

Translated by: Deborah Dawkin

A novel about a mother-daughter relationship that will send a chill down your spine. Johanne is a young woman in her twenties who lives with her mother. When she falls in love with Ivar, she finally feels ready to leave home. The couple plan a trip to America. But the morning of her departure, Johanne wakes up to find the door locked. Can she overcome her fears? Will she shout for help? Will she climb out of her fourth floor window? ------ Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'Everyone who has read Fifty Shades of Grey should read this book. Why? The Blue Room holds up a mirror to a part of the female psyche that yearns for submission. The story shows how erotic fantasies are formed by the relationship with our parents. It then delves further to analyse the struggle of women to separate from their mothers - a struggle that is rarely addressed in either literature or society.' Meike Ziervogel, Publisher See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 125 x 190mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jun 2014
  • Publisher: Peirene Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781908670151

About Hanne Orstavik

With the publication of her first novel in 1994 Hanne Orstavik born in 1969 embarked on a career that has made her one of the most admired authors in contemporary Norwegian literature. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of Love (Kjarlighet ) which in 2006 was voted the sixth best Norwegian book of the last twenty-five years. Since then the author has written several acclaimed novels and has received a number of literary prizes including the Dobloug Prize for her entire literary output and the Brage Prize Norway's most prestigious literary award. Orstavik's novels have been translated into eighteen languages but never until now into English.

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