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NYPL's Best Books of 2024 A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter. January and minus 14°C, white, frosty mist around the parked car, around the spruces, the mailbox on its post, but higher up the sky is blue, clear, the sun has come back. She has written in her diary that she is waiting for the heartbreak that will turn her into her true self. She has an impending sense of doom or possibly her own death. So opens Vigids Hjorth's groundbreaking novel from 2001, which melds the yearning, doomed potency of Annie Ernaux's A Simple Passion with the scale and force of Anna Karenina. It asks, can passion be mistaken for love? And proceeds to document the destruction a decade defined by such a misconstruction can yield on a life.

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Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and bestselling novels. Will and Testament sold 170,000 copies in Norway and has received several awards, including the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, as well as being nominated for the National Book Award and Nordic Council Literature Prize. Long Live the Post Horn! won the Believer Book Award for fiction in 2020, and Is Mother Dead was listed for the International Booker Prize in 2023. With an MFA in acting from Tisch/NYU Graduate Acting Program, Hannah Cabell has performed in dozens of productions on- and off-Broadway, including the premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview and opposite Frank Langella in both A Man for All Seasons and The Father. She has also appeared on numerous television shows, including The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, The Leftovers, Mr. Robot, and as Judge Lena Gittens in the recently revived Law & Order. Charlotte Barslund has translated several Norwegian and Danish writers, including Jo Nesbø and Karin Fossum. Her translation of Per Petterson's I Curse The River of Time was shortlisted for the Independent 2011 Foreign Fiction award, and that of Carsten Jensen's We, the Drowned was nominated for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.

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