Lit in Translation

Wait, Blink

Vente, blinke

Gunnhild Øyehaug (born 1975)

Translated by Kari Dickson

English editions

In English

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A novel made of several stories. Sigrid, a young and rather inhibited literature student, has a decisive encounter with the writer Kåre. Linnea, a film director, goes to Copenhagen to scout locations; Trine, a performance artist, is suffering from engorged breasts; and Viggo, another student of literature, longs fiercely to belong to someone or something. Elida, the fishmonger’s daughter, Robert the film producer and Göran the literature professor also play their part in this bundle of trembling and at times desperate characters. Funny and searching at once, the book is about urges and dreams, women and men, love, and what it takes to dare to be oneself.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
270 pages in the original
Genres
Love (assigned by AI)
First published
2008 by Kolon
Author's age
33 when first published
ISBN

9788205385726 (original)

9780374285890 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

9781250215024 (Picador, United States)

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