Love

Shortlisted for the 2020 Republic of Consciousness PrizeWinner of the 2019 PEN America Translation PrizeFinalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureAs clear and relentless a ...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Republic of Consciousness PrizeWinner of the 2019 PEN America Translation PrizeFinalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureAs clear and relentless as the cold air, Love unfolds over one winter’s evening. Single mother Vibeke and her son Jon have just moved to a small, remote town in the north of Norway. Tomorrow Jon will be nine. As Vibeke gets changed after work, Jon wonders what surprises his mother has prepared for him. He leaves the house certain she will make him a cake. But preoccupied with concerns of her own, she too ventures out. Inextri