Sakset

A capable woman with a successful career and no partner decides to adopt, and after years of forms and planning she flies to China to collect a small daughter. On paper everything is right; in reality nothing is. The girl stares at her in silence and does not come to her, and the bond the woman had willed into being refuses to form. She means to raise the child alone and differently from others, but chaos and the unexpected frighten her, her grip on herself loosens, and the dread of failing grows. Her own childhood with parents who drank keeps breaking into the story, which unfolds in three panels like a triptych, asking whether a mother and a child can be afraid of each other, and whether wanting to love is enough.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

240 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2007 by Teos

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9789518511055 (original)