56 oletan

New Year's fireworks are bursting as a woman sits in a broken-down train with a shattered heart. From then on the weeks drag along the bottom, but somehow she has to get by, all the more when, on top of her personal troubles, a cursed virus falls on the world and closes the borders. Week by week the book weaves an unusual year; and who knows how many weeks a wretched year can hold, perhaps 56. Each week's narrator is a different woman, Penelope, Jane, Salome or Pandora among them, but the state and direction of the world stay the same: up and down, and evenly grey. It tries out and mocks autofiction and self-help alike.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

197 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Satire (assigned by AI)

First published

2021 by Teos

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789523632134 (original)