An Altered Light - Hardcover

Anne Born; Jens Christian Grondahl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151010439 ISBN 13: 9780151010431

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Synopsis

Irene Beckman appears to have a perfect life: two grown children, a house in a prosperous suburb of Copenhagen, and a successful career as a family lawyer. She is cool, sophisticated, and still exotically good-looking, the dyed hair her only concession to time.
Then her husband announces that he's leaving her, and her mother reveals some unexpected information about Irene's father. Suddenly, Irene Beckman is neither wife nor daughter. Nor, she realizes, is it at all clear who she has been all these years. It is time to find out.
From the internationally acclaimed author of Silence in October, An Altered Light is another fascinating exploration of the nature of chance and relationships-between parents and children, husbands and wives, friends and strangers.

About this title

Synopsis:

Irene Beckman is 56 years old. She is a lawyer - married, economically well off, with two grown children. One day, as she is listening to her answering machine, she realises that her husband is having a relationship with another woman. She has had suspicions for some time and the idea does not particularly bother her. Her marriage has been pro forma for many years ('once in a while, he made the effort to seduce her') and she has had an affair herself, many years ago. However, at a dinner party, when her husband, having said nothing to her, suddenly tells her and all their guests, that he has found another and intends to leave her, she is forced to face the fact that this phase of her life is over and, from that point, it will be taking a new turn.

About the Author:

JENS CHRISTIAN GRØNDAHL has written plays, essays, and twelve novels, and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Copenhagen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0151010439
• ISBN 13: 9780151010431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 271