Unquiet: a novel
"He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that she's grown up and he's in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that he's losing his language, his memory, his mind. Growing old is hard work, he says. They will write it together. She will ask the questions.…
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- Full title :Unquiet : a novel / Linn Ullmann ; translated from the Norwegian by Thilo Reinhard.
Summary
"He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that she's grown up and he's in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that he's losing his language, his memory, his mind. Growing old is hard work, he says. They will write it together. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. When she finally comes to the island, bringing her tape recorder with her, old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen"--Front jacket flap.
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- Publication Date:2019
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
Notes
"Originally published in Norwegian as De Urolige"--Title verso page.
The Physical Object
- Description:392 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780393609943, 0393609944
- oclc:on1037811199
- LC Classification:PT8951.31.L56
- Dewey Decimal:839.823/74
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