Bibliograph

Present tense machine, a novel, Gunnhild Øyehaug ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson

Type

Label

Present tense machine, a novel, Gunnhild Øyehaug ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Present tense machine

Oclc number

1246145683

Responsibility statement

Gunnhild Øyehaug ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson

Sub title

a novel

Summary

On an ordinary day in Bergen, Norway, in the late 1990s, Anna is reading in the garden while her two-year-old daughter, Laura, plays on her tricycle. Then, in one startling moment, Anna misreads a word, an alternate universe opens up, and Laura disappears. Twenty years or so later, life has gone on as if nothing happened, but in each of the women's lives, something is not quite right. Both Anna and Laura continue to exist, but they are invisible to each other and forgotten in each other's worlds. Both are writers and amateur pianists. They are married; Anna had two more children after Laura disappeared, and Laura is expecting a child of her own. They worry about their families, their jobs, the climate -- and whether this reality is all there is

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