{"product_id":"girl-1983","title":"Girl 1983","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A masterpiece. It pushes the fused power of memoir and story to a new dimension'' Ali Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA heart-rending work of autofiction from one of Norway''s most prominent literary writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I’m trying to bring them together into one body – the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don’t know if it can be done''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis, a winter’s night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begins to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Oslo, New York and Paris, \u003ci\u003eGirl, 1983\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-defying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion. As in her landmark previous work, \u003ci\u003eUnquiet\u003c\/i\u003e, Linn Ullmann continues to probe the elegiac sway of memory as she looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward sixteen-year-old girl lost in Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirl, 1983\u003c\/i\u003e is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Ullmann’s gaze on the  power and pain of a teenage girl as remembered and restaged by her adult self is unflinching and startling’ Deborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57194362503550,"sku":"NW9780241639627","price":14.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241639627.jpg?v=1778548214","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/girl-1983","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}