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Translated form the Norwegian, this is a detailed and sexually frank novel about motherhood and marriage, love and infidelity. Spanning three generations in the life of a Norwegian family, the story moves from present-day to Oslo to 1930s Brooklyn. Ullmann tells her story through the voices of the eccentric and formidable women of the Blom family.
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Linn Ullmann's bold first novel Before You Sleep is wonderfully edgy, veering close to bleakness, but is rescued by the wacky and surreal irreverence of its narrator, the chippy-chirpy Karin Blom. Interweaving in-your-face realism with moments of deliciously wild fantasy, she does the unthinkable and unsayable. And she can sing a Gershwin tune to seduce any man--even one who won't take his boots off in bed.
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Short scenes, sideswipes, flashbacks, speculations, are all looped and intercut together as Karin recreates three generations of Blom women travelling from Norway to 1940s' Brooklyn and back to 1990s' Oslo. Mismatches, infidelities, rivalries litter their paths, making each unhappy family miserable in its own way. Grandfather had fallen in love with one sister but married the other and the two sisters never spoke again. The once-beautiful Anni now has "a liquid face" that her daughter Karin can no longer bear to look at. But it's her concern for her betrayed sister Julie and young son, Sandor, which reveals Karin's tender heart.
Not surprisingly, given Linn Ullmann's parentage (her father: Ingmar Bergman; her mother Liv Ullmann), Before You Sleep has a richly pictorial quality but the author's perceptive and affectionately humane eye and voice are all her own, making Before You Sleep a fine debut. --Ruth Petrie
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0330481193
- ISBN 13 9780330481199
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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