Love
Love
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A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their distance has fatal consequences.
Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norway. It’s the day before Jon’s birthday, and a travelling carnival has come to the village. Jon goes out to sell lottery tickets for his sports club, and Vibeke is going to the library. From here on we follow the two individuals on their separate journeys through a cold winter’s night – while a sense of uneasiness grows.
Love illustrates how language builds its own reality, and thus how mother and son can live in completely separate worlds. This distance is found not only between human beings, but also within each individual. This novel shows how such distance may have fatal consequences.
Winner of the 2019 Pen Translation Prize.
Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Hanne Ørstavik grew up in Tana, Øst-Finnmark, northern Norway, and moved to Oslo at the age of sixteen. She is a graduate in psychology, French and sociology.
She published her first novel, Hakk, in 1994.
Works by Hanne Ørstavik have been translated into fifteen languages; she has received numerous literary awards, including Oktoberprisen (Oktober Prize), Havmannprisen (Havmann Prize), Amalie Skram-prisen (Amalie Skram Award) and Aschehougprisen (Aschehoug Prize).
