Near Distance
(By Hanna Stoltenberg)
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Her whole life, Karin has fled from everyone and everything that wants to possess her. She has a daughter she rarely contacts, a job she never wanted, and she mainly socialises with men she meets on the internet. But when her daughter’s marriage risks falling apart, she is forced out into a world that demands something from her.
Astute observations in a narrative shifting between the past and the present gradually reveal the reveal the vulnerabilities of this 53-year-old store manager, who would rather go for a drink with a new man than babysit her grandchildren.
Against a background of meditation retreats and personal shoppers, Near Distance deals with intimacy, introspection and self-deception. It’s about longing for purity in a world of chaos – and how strange the story we tell about ourselves can seem to others.
Near Distance published as Nada in Norway 2019 and won both the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas debutant prize and the NATT&DAG Oslo prize for best literary work. And The Wigeland Prize given to the best translation from Norwegian by a resident of Norway.”
