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Hjorth, Vigdis2024
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A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. She has written in her diary that she is waiting for the heartbreak that will turn her into her true self. She has an impending sense of doom or possibly her own death. Can passion be mistaken for love? When Ida meets Arnold, also married, at a conference, she impulsively invites him to share her bed. She returns home, already half-obsessed, and the dissolution of her marriage and break-up of her family pass almost without her noticing. Arnold has a more relaxed attitude toward the affair. But neither his coolness nor the alarming talk she hears about him can dampen her desire. When she finally has Arnold for herself, all the surface niceties and indulgences they enjoy can't sustain the sweetness of the fantasy. Their mounting jealousies and insecurities metastasize, resulting in violence and addiction.
Main title:
If only / a novel by Vigdis Hjorth ; translated by Charlotte Barslund.
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2024.London : Verso, 2024.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Norwegian.
ISBN:
9781839768880 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishNorwegian
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BRN:
2970782