A short, suspenseful Norwegian winter’s tale

Driving listening to the radio, heard end of an interview with the author Hanne Ørstavik of a new book ‘Love‘.

What caught my attention was the description of being outside in the snow – the silence. Something in the South of England we might not experience anymore.

Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature

A short, suspenseful Norwegian winter’s tale. A harrowing, tragic story of a mother and her son.

“As clear and relentless as the cold air, Love unfolds over one winter’s evening. Single mother Vibeke and her son Jon have just moved to a small, remote town in the north of Norway. Tomorrow Jon will be nine. As Vibeke gets changed after work, Jon wonders what surprises his mother has prepared for him. He leaves the house certain she will make him a cake. But preoccupied with concerns of her own, she too ventures out. Inextricably linked yet desperately at odds, mother and son make their lonely ways through the unforgiving night.”