Often I Am Happy: Jens Christian Grondahl - Hardcover

Grøndahl, Jens Christian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 150984239X ISBN 13: 9781509842391

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

When Ellinor addresses her best friend Anna, she does not expect a reply. Anna has been dead for forty years, killed in the same skiing accident that claimed Henning: Ellinor's first husband and Anna's lover.Ellinor instead tells her that Georg has died - Georg who was once Anna's, but whom Ellinor came to love in her place, and whom she came to care for, along with Anna's two infant sons. Yet with Georg's death Ellinor finds herself able to cut the ties of her assumed life with surprising ease.Returning to the area of Copenhagen where she grew up, away from the adopted comfort of the home she shared with Georg, Ellinor finds herself addressing her own history: her marriage to Henning, their seemingly charmed friendship with the newly-wed Anna and Georg, right back to her own mother's story - a story of heartbreaking pride.Because there are some secrets - both our own and of others - that we can only share with the dead., Secrets that nonetheless shape who we are and who we love.

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In Danish novelist Grondahl's stunning latest, a recently widowed 70-year-old woman reexamines her life and past decisions . . . A compassionate and often edifying commentary on the elasticity of love, the strength it takes to move forward after a death, and the power of forgiveness. * Publishers Weekly, starred review *

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Praise for Jens Christian Grøndahl

‘Very occasionally one comes across a writer who has the power irrevocably to alter one’s perspective. Jens Christian Grøndahl is one such’ Scotsman

Silence in October

‘Superb . . . Grøndahl’s prose, translated by Anne Born, is electrically charged, while the plot is gripping and full of emotion . . . A winner all the way’ The Times

‘Beautifully written, effortlessly flowing and packed with visual snapshots . . . Very moving’ Times Literary Supplement

Lucca

‘One of the most subtle and involving novels I’ve read for a long time . . . something that one rarely comes across and should treasure when one does’ Diana Athill

‘His propensity for philosophical turns of phrase, which in the hands of a lesser writer might seem forced, here seems entirely appropriate’ Guardian

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 150984239X
• ISBN 13: 9781509842391
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176