Will and Testament: A Novel (Verso Fiction)

Will and Testament: A Novel (Verso Fiction)

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

â€œThe cumulative effect is hypnotic.Â Hjorth works finely parsed and brilliant variations on her unrelenting theme of familial mistrust and misunderstanding.â€ â€“New York Times

â€œA prickly, persuasive novel.Â Like Knausgaard, Hjorth is writing against repression, against the taboo on telling things as they really are. But he urges us to look at dead bodies; she forces us to regard bleeding souls.â€ â€“New Yorker

Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a dispute over her parentsâ€™ will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favouritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture as something very differentâ€”a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured.

Will and Testament is a lyrical meditation on trauma and memory, as well as a furious account of a womanâ€™s struggle to survive and be believed. Vigdis Hjorthâ€™s novel became a controversial literary sensation in Norway and has been translated into twenty languages.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso Fiction
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781788733106
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2019-09-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781788733106

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso Fiction
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781788733106
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2019-09-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781788733106