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Is Mother Dead

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ISBN: 9781804291832
AuthorHjorth, Vigdis
Pub Date25/10/2022
BindingTrade PB
Pages368
CountryGBR
Dewey839.8238
SeriesVerso Fiction
Publisher: Verso Books
Quick overview 'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian.
€15.06

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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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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