Stay with Me
Translated from Norwegian by Martin Aitken.
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- Paperback published on 05/09/2024
- Page count: 176 pages
- ISBN: 9781916751088
Synopsis
The narrator of this novel is a Norwegian writer living in Milan. A year has passed since the premature death of her Italian husband. She falls in love.
M is fifteen years younger than her, but the connection between them is intense and of a kind she has never felt before. Then, as his vulnerability starts showing, so does his troubling rage. She knows this rage.
It was always present in her childhood, and it created an all-encompassing fear in her. In Stay with Me, Hanne Ørstavik returns to her theme of love, this time exploring how it can be intertwined with insecurity, fear and violence. How do you recognize love? What if your deeply rooted need to protect yourself also means shutting love out?‘Soul-searching on speed.
Ørstavik writes with such distressing courage that as a reader, you become sweaty-palmed. Stay with Me is Hanne Ørstavik at her very best; so intense and profound that the unease becomes contagious.
About the author
Hanne Ørstavik is a Norwegian writer. She was born in Tana Municipality in Finnmark county in the far north of Norway. She moved to Oslo at the age of 16. With the publication of the novel Hakk in 1994, Ørstavik embarked her writing career.
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