Love - Winner of the 2019 Pen America Translation Prize

A short, suspenseful Norwegian winter's tale crafted in beautifully spare and precise prose. A harrowing, tragic story of a mother and her son.

About the author

Hanne Ørstavik is one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her novel Love was voted one of Norway’s Top Ten books of the last twenty-five years. Her penultimate novel Ti Amo was published in English by And Other Stories in 2022. Stay with Me is her latest and sixteenth novel.Martin Aitken's translations of Scandinavian literature have appeared on the shortlists of the DUBLIN Literary Award (2017) and the US National Book Awards (2018), as well as the 2021 International Booker Prize. For his translation of Ørstavik's Love he received the 2019 PEN America Translation Prize.

Summary

A short, suspenseful Norwegian winter’s tale crafted in beautifully spare and precise prose. A harrowing, tragic story of a mother and her son.

Product details

• Authors: Hanne Orstavik
• Assisted by: Martin Aitken (Translation), Aitken Martin (Translation)
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781911508724
• ISBN: 978-1-911508-72-4
• No. of pages: 146
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary