{"product_id":"repetition-paperback","title":"Repetition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVigdis Hjorth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Barslund\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness, exposing a story both utterly familiar and desperately strange. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was the year she first got drunk, the year she first had sex with a boy. She was watched like a hawk by an anxious mother and a silent, distant father. It was a year of typical teenage fixation and typical teenage frivolity, and of all the usual parental fretting. Until something else took hold, and her family made an unspoken decision and a terrible sacrifice. Only now, decades later, can these events come close to being comprehended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRepetition\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVIGDIS HJORTH\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. \u003ci\u003eWill and Testament \u003c\/i\u003ewas nominated for the National Book Award, \u003ci\u003eLong Live the Post Horn! \u003c\/i\u003ewon the \u003ci\u003eBeliever \u003c\/i\u003eBook Award for fiction in 2020, and \u003ci\u003eIs Mother Dead \u003c\/i\u003ewas longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 7.73 x 5.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52047204778285,"sku":"9781804298947","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/repetition-paperback-6737290.webp?v=1780169768","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/repetition-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}