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In a saga sparkling with wisdom, wit and style, Linn Ullmann explores the emotional terrain of marriage and motherhood with wicked humour and a tender eye for human frailty.
‘Striking . . . a haunted, melancholy story of wandering parents and wayward children, and the ways they permeate one another’s past and future’ Sylvia Brownrigg, Independent
‘A wonderful novel . . . Ullmann has an extraordinary touch’ Gaby Wood, Observer
‘A seriously well-written meditation on seduction, family, and the need to find a home. It ranges in style from carnivalesque debauchery to stone-cold, limpid realism, all apparently glittering with an insouciant application of fantasy’ Herald
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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.
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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The story of the eccentric and formidable women of the Blom family
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