Unquiet
Linn Ullmann
(Author)
Description
A heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of the intricacies of family life, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
January 14, 2020
Pages
416
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.2 X 1.2 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393357653
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About the Author
Linn Ullmann is an award-winning author, journalist, and literary critic. She has published four novels in thirty-three languages, all of them critically acclaimed international bestsellers: Before You Sleep, Stella Descending, Grace, and A Blessed Child. She received The Reader's Prize and the Amalie Skram Award for her literary work. Ullmann is a cofounder and former artistic director of the international artist residency foundation of the Bergman Estate on Faro. Linn lives in Oslo with her husband and children.
Reviews
Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters--dangerous artistically as well as personally--without capsizing or making a mistake, but it is a tremendous accomplishment. Funny, graceful, interesting, modest, and most of all a work of the highest moral competence.--Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy
This magnificent, elegant work is pure tour de force. It's part elegy, part elucidation of family love and family mystery, it's funny, wry, dry, almost untakeably moving, and all of this is held steady in the form by Linn Ullmann's refusal to swerve from the true, by her understanding of the combined human weakness and human marvelousness in all of us, and above all by her clear eye. It is a wonderful book, unputdownable, one that taps into the sheer electric current between the fictions and the truths that make our life stories. It's one of the best things I've read in a long, long time.--Ali Smith, author of How to Be Both
Ullmann has formed a book out of the explicit landmarks of her lived life.... The form of the book, however, isn't documentary, but, rather, fragmentary, the way memory is.... The clarity and lack of fetter is characteristic of [her] way of seeing the world in prose.--Wyatt Mason
[An] exquisite and warm novel.... Among Norway's contemporary writers, Ullmann might be the finest sentence by sentence.--John Freeman
But even without knowing her parents were world-renowned, Unquiet would resonate powerfully because many of the issues it explores are common to parent-child relationships.... It's a high-wire act few writers have performed with such grace.--Dmitry Samarov
A brilliant meditation on time, mortality, and the limits of memory.... Gorgeous and heartbreaking.
Ullman succeeds on every level, blending time, memory, and emotion into a fascinating and intimate portrait that easily evokes the universal sense of love and loss. Highly recommended.
This is a striking book about the enduring love between parents and children, and the fierce attachments that bind them even after death.
Unquiet is a wonderfully absorbing and moving family story told with a directness, naturalness, and grace that can only result from Linn Ullmann's close attention to the eloquent details of day-to-day life, her honest embrace of herself and the people close to her, and a keen sensitivity to language and the high demands of good writing.--Lydia Davis, author of The End of the Story
This magnificent, elegant work is pure tour de force. It's part elegy, part elucidation of family love and family mystery, it's funny, wry, dry, almost untakeably moving, and all of this is held steady in the form by Linn Ullmann's refusal to swerve from the true, by her understanding of the combined human weakness and human marvelousness in all of us, and above all by her clear eye. It is a wonderful book, unputdownable, one that taps into the sheer electric current between the fictions and the truths that make our life stories. It's one of the best things I've read in a long, long time.--Ali Smith, author of How to Be Both
Ullmann has formed a book out of the explicit landmarks of her lived life.... The form of the book, however, isn't documentary, but, rather, fragmentary, the way memory is.... The clarity and lack of fetter is characteristic of [her] way of seeing the world in prose.--Wyatt Mason
[An] exquisite and warm novel.... Among Norway's contemporary writers, Ullmann might be the finest sentence by sentence.--John Freeman
But even without knowing her parents were world-renowned, Unquiet would resonate powerfully because many of the issues it explores are common to parent-child relationships.... It's a high-wire act few writers have performed with such grace.--Dmitry Samarov
A brilliant meditation on time, mortality, and the limits of memory.... Gorgeous and heartbreaking.
Ullman succeeds on every level, blending time, memory, and emotion into a fascinating and intimate portrait that easily evokes the universal sense of love and loss. Highly recommended.
This is a striking book about the enduring love between parents and children, and the fierce attachments that bind them even after death.
Unquiet is a wonderfully absorbing and moving family story told with a directness, naturalness, and grace that can only result from Linn Ullmann's close attention to the eloquent details of day-to-day life, her honest embrace of herself and the people close to her, and a keen sensitivity to language and the high demands of good writing.--Lydia Davis, author of The End of the Story
