Bibliograph

Is mother dead, a novel, by Vigdis Hjorth ; translated by Charlotte Barslund

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Is mother dead, a novel, by Vigdis Hjorth ; translated by Charlotte Barslund

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Is mother dead

Responsibility statement

by Vigdis Hjorth ; translated by Charlotte Barslund

Sub title

a novel

Summary

To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought aboiut a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new proximity, after decades of acrimonius absence, set both women on edge, and before too long Johanna finds her mother stalking her thoughts, and Johanna starts stalking her mother's house

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