![]() ![]() “The author writes an infinitely honest letter to her child – with high literay quality and a few ethical challenges … Skomsvold has been productive and innovative both in form and prose. ![]() With attention to the little details, and a distinctive closeness to her own material, she writes the child into her story. “If anybody were to write a credible, true-to-experience novel about birth and life with small children, I think few would be better equipped to do so than Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold. “A wonderful, balanced book about the love between mother and child … She writes beautifully about insufferable physical pain, and grippingly about the relief that only a baby can give” Here the child is a force which keeps the artist on track” #RADIOEINS LOGO UPDATE#“An original portrait of the artist as a mother … it’s all portrayed with subtle humour and unexpected associations … The Child is a novel about love and the will to live with others, and it’s a fresh update of a primordial female motive. “A novel which grows stronger by close reading and which will enrich the reader … The text is easy to read, but the prose is carefully sculpted, with metaphors, in a cascade of small, dense images, in moments, at times through wonderfully long, sharp sentences … a sophisticated form and a vivid portrait … a novel with a lot of wisdom” Thomas Böhm, Radioeins Literaturagenten, Germany “The book convinces with its poetry and its form” “A very thoughtful, sensitive little book, but beautifully written” “Poetic, sensitive, rich with images … an author tells her newborn daughter about the latter’s birth, about her own life with the father, and about how she risks the very thing that has been the most important thing in her life: writing” A book about creating literature and life” “In this intimate novel she shows clearly how motherhood and creativity fuse. Skomsvold’s prose is light, serious, heartfelt, vulnerable and poetic, and thereby she manages to touch us in the most profound way” #RADIOEINS LOGO FULL#An honest novel full of clear images, built up of sensitive prose, a precise look on the self, the world, our time and motherhood. The main character’s insecurity is the insecurity of our time, where things have become complex.” “Love came quickly … only writing is unbelievably slow” – it’s sentences like these, unstilted, wise and still poetic, that make you fall in love with this book. “An unusually impressive novel … simple, but alluringly lyrical prose … The quiet moments that Skomsvold’s narrator recreates are filled with enchantment and unease, as if everyday life is constantly dominated by secrets and danger” “A powerful book on motherhood, anxiety and love … It’s a novel I will read many times” “Skomsvold’s fragile, troubled novel about becoming a parent is one of the most extraordinary and at the same time most familiar books on early motherhood I have read … a short and intense novel, sorrowful, raw and powerful” Liz Berry, author of The Republic of Motherhood “I loved this book, as raw and shimmering as the early nights of motherhood through its poetic fragments and deep thought the wonder, fear and joy of intimacy shine” It’s written with memorable precision and love, and I was sorry to finish it” “ The Child pays close, intelligent attention to motherhood and art. “A bittersweet meditation on motherhood and writing” Aided by Martin Aitken’s smooth translation, The Child is an absolute joy-one to be savoured slowly.’ ‘ in a fragmented style reminiscent of Jenny Offill and Rivka Galchen… a raw and sharply observed memoir-of-sorts, taut with nuance and containing a web of interconnected subjects and themes… Contradictions abound-a reflection of reality that rings startlingly true… Skomsvold’s latest work makes for a memorable reading experience. ![]() “Concise, compelling… engaging… Manages to impart a wealth of feeling with a few carefully chosen strokes… Recalls the work of Maggie Nelson, Sheila Heti and Jenny Offill… style is precise and careful, page after page of well judged, unusual phrases that remain in the mind… Startling phrases abound… The book has a quiet humour… that adds further depth to the insights and observations… Skomsvold writes with empathetic clarity on the sensibility of the artist” ![]()
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