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Unquiet by Linn Ullmann
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Length 10 hours 27 minutes
Language English
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'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSK

He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and once loved. Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visits the father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic Sea.

Now that she's grown up - a writer, with children of her own - and he's in his eighties, they envision writing a book together, about old age, language, memory and loss. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. The tape recorder will record.

But it's winter now and old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen. And when the father is gone, only memories, images and words -- both remembered and recorded - remain. And from these the daughter begins to write her own story, in the pages which become this book.

Heart-breaking and spell-binding, Unquiet is a seamless blend of fiction and memoir in pursuit of elemental truths about how we live, love, lose and age.

ยฉ Linn Ullmann 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Linn Ullmann is the author of six award-winning and critically-acclaimed novels. Her work has been published in more than thirty languages, and adapted for both stage and screen. Unquiet has received multiple awards, spent more than a year on the Scandinavian bestseller lists and was heralded as a modern classic in Norway. In 2017 Ullmann received the Doubloug Prize from the Swedish Academy for her body of work. She lives in Oslo with her family.

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Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters This magnificent, elegant work is pure tour de force... one of the best things I've read in a long, long time [An] exquisite and warm novel ... Among Norway's contemporary writers, Ullmann might be the finest sentence by sentence 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 I've long admired Linn Ullmann's fiction, and Unquiet is her masterpiece. Based on her upbringing as the child of two great artists, it is the portrait of complex loves; of a youth divided and inspired by diametrically opposed creative influences; and of the ravages of age. Calm yet fierce, exquisitely rendered, this novel imprints itself indelibly?as if you, too, had been there Ullmann navigates the dangerous and fissile territory... with great power. I am in awe Effortlessly lucid, full of grace and restraint A powerful and unsettling hybrid of memoir, fiction and meditation ... The work of a lifetime Expand reviews