Grace
(Sprache: Englisch)
A stunning novel about how the most banal of lives can be touched by grace in the most unexpected ways
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A stunning novel about how the most banal of lives can be touched by grace in the most unexpected ways
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Johan has bargained with Death for years: when he was a boy, he prayed that Death take his father, not his mother; when he was a man, Death kindly removed his wife, Alice, allowing him to marry Mai, the love of his life. Now, Death has come for him, and Johan needs to strike one last bargain: when the moment arrives, he wants Mai to promise that she will help him on his way out of the world.Johan has been mainly a paragon of mediocrity; it is only through his love for Mai that he has seen the greater possibilities that life can sometimes offer. He is determined that his passing will be dignified, controlled - perhaps even comforting. But when the time comes, and Mai has finally agreed to help him, he is no longer sure even that he has asked the right question. His deathbed is not as he imagined. His life - as a husband, lover and father - was never what it could have been. And why is it exactly, he wonders, that his one true love has agreed to be his angel of death?Linn Ullmann's haunting novel portrays a passionate love affair and asks difficult questions about life, love and death. Finally, in prose of cool precision, deep insight and dark wit, it illustrates how the most ordinary of lives can, in the end, be unexpectedly touched by grace.'Ullmann is a fine writer, complex, intelligent and scrupulous. The drama of private life, and of the here and now, continues to require voices such as hers' Daily TelegraphAutoren-Porträt von Linn Ullmann
Linn Ullmann wurde 1966 in Oslo geboren. Sie studierte Englische Literatur an der New York University und kehrte nach zehn Jahren 1990 nach Oslo zurück, wo sie sich als Literaturkritikerin und Kolumnistin bei den norwegischen Zeitungen Dagbladet und Aftenposten einen Namen machte. Seit 1998 veröffentlichte Linn Ullmann mehrere Romane (darunter Die Lügnerin und Gnade ), die großen Anklang bei Presse und Lesern fanden und in 30 Sprachen übersetzt wurden. Linn Ullmann lebt mit Mann und Kindern in Oslo.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Linn Ullmann
- 2007, Main Market Ed., 144 Seiten, Maße: 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- From the Norwegian by Barbara Haveland
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 0330434322
- ISBN-13: 9780330434324
Sprache:
Englisch
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