Unquiet

Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visited her father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic Sea.

Years later, when she is grown with children of her own and he's in his eighties, they plan to write a book together. It will be about age and time, language and memory. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. The tape recorder will record. But old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen. And when the man is gone, only memories - both remembered and recorded - remain.

Heart-breaking and spellbinding, Unquiet is a seamless blend of fiction and memoir in pursuit of elemental truths about how we live, love, lose and age.
Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters
Rachel Cusk

About Linn Ullmann

Linn Ullmann is the author of seven award-winning and critically-acclaimed novels. Her work has been published in 36 languages, and adapted for both stage and screen. Unquiet has received multiple awards, spent more than a year on the Scandinavian bestseller lists and was heralded as a modern classic in Norway. Girl, 1983 was the bestselling Norwegian novel in 2022, was awarded the Aschehoug Prize and was a nominee for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2017 Ullmann received the Doubloug Prize from the Swedish Academy for her body of work. She lives in Oslo with her family.
Details
  • Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
  • ISBN: 9780241464625
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 277g
  • Price: £8.99
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