Unquiet : a novel / by Linn Ullmann ; translated by Thilo Reinhard.
"He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that shes grown up and hes in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that hes losing his language, his memory, his mind. Growing old is hard work, he says. They will write it together. She will ask the questions. He will answer them.When she finally comes to the island, bringing her tape recorder with her, old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen.Unquiet follows the narrator as she unearths these taped conversations seven years later. Swept into memory, she reimagines the story of a father, a mother, and a girl--a child who cant wait to grow up and parents who would rather be children. A heartbreaking and darkly funny depiction of the intricacies of family, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old. Linn Ullmann nimbly blends memoir and fiction in her most inventive novel yet, weaving a luminous meditation on language, mourning, and the many narratives that make up a life."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781432863685
- ISBN: 1432863681
- Physical Description: 529 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
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General Note: | "The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged."--Title page verso. Subtitle from cover. Originally published in Norwegian as De Urolige. |
Language Note: | Translated from the Norwegian. |
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Subject: | Fathers and daughters > Fiction. Motion picture producers and directors > Fiction. Authors > Fiction. Aging > Fiction, Identity (Philosophical concept) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. Large print books. |
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Covington Branch | LT ULLMA L (Text) | 33126024606455 | Large Print Fiction | Available | - |