Bibliograph

Will and testament, a novel, by Vigdis Hjorth ; translated by Charlotte Barslund

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Will and testament, a novel, by Vigdis Hjorth ; translated by Charlotte Barslund

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Will and testament

Responsibility statement

by Vigdis Hjorth ; translated by Charlotte Barslund

Sub title

a novel

Summary

When a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favoritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture as something very different - a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured

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