Vigdis Hjorth

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• Gjentakelsen

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  Gjentakelsen

  Vigdis Hjorth · 64 when first published

  Novel · 144 pages · Coming of age, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:A grown woman looks back on herself at sixteen in Oslo, on first kisses, first drinks and marathon training, under a mother who watches her like a hawk and a distant father, in a house full of secrets.

• Femten år

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  Femten år

  AITitle translated by AI:“Fifteen Years”

  Vigdis Hjorth · 63 when first published

  Novel · 182 pages · Coming of age, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:A girl's orderly childhood of family meals, ski trips and summers at the cabin breaks apart when she finds a bundle of letters her mother wrote to her grandmother, describing a family life full of lies.

• Er mor død

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  Is Mother Dead

  Er mor død

  Vigdis Hjorth · 61 when first published

  Novel · 352 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:After three decades in the United States and the death of her husband, a painter returns to Norway and sets out to understand, and draw near to, the mother she left behind long ago.