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Only Human
Kristine Naess
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Description for Only Human
Hardback. Bea Britt lives alone in her grandmother's house in Oslo. Early one morning, there are people out in the garden, and drama unfolding on her living room TV. Volunteers are scouring the neighbouring woods looking for Emilie, a twelve-year-old girl who has disappeared. This novel is about enduring oneself and others, delicately revealing the choices. Translator(s): Kinsella, Sean. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138. Weight in Grams: 567.
Bea Britt lives alone in her grandmother's house in west Oslo. Early one morning, she wakes to find a police hunt outside her window and drama unfolding on her TV. Volunteers are scouring the local woods looking for Emilie, a missing schoolgirl. Emilie's rucksack is found in Bea Britt's garden. But as her spiralling doubts and suspicions take over, is she a suspect, a witness or a potential second victim? The mystery of Emilie's disappearance and Bea Britt's story are intricately bound to the lives of two other women: ... Read more
Bea Britt lives alone in her grandmother's house in west Oslo. Early one morning, she wakes to find a police hunt outside her window and drama unfolding on her TV. Volunteers are scouring the local woods looking for Emilie, a missing schoolgirl. Emilie's rucksack is found in Bea Britt's garden. But as her spiralling doubts and suspicions take over, is she a suspect, a witness or a potential second victim? The mystery of Emilie's disappearance and Bea Britt's story are intricately bound to the lives of two other women: ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910701805
SKU
V9781910701805
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About Kristine Naess
Kristine Naess is a writer, editor and literary critic. She is widely regarded as one of the best Scandinavian writers working today, and is celebrated for her distinct, personal voice. Only Human was nominated for the 2015 Nordic Council Literature Prize, and is her debut in English.
Reviews for Only Human
Few are able to take language closer to life than Kristine Naess, she is one of the very best authors of our generation
Karl Ove Knausgaard Disciplined, fraughtly tense... It is a dark, claustrophobic examination of three women in varying states of despairing anxiety... This is a dense work of uncomfortable honesty
David Mills
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Karl Ove Knausgaard Disciplined, fraughtly tense... It is a dark, claustrophobic examination of three women in varying states of despairing anxiety... This is a dense work of uncomfortable honesty
David Mills
... Read more