{"product_id":"repetition-paperback","title":"Repetition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness, exposing a story both utterly familiar and desperately strange. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was the year she first got drunk, the year she first had sex with a boy. She was watched like a hawk by an anxious mother and a silent, distant father. It was a year of typical teenage fixation and typical teenage frivolity, and of all the usual parental fretting. Until something else took hold, and her family made an unspoken decision and a terrible sacrifice. Only now, decades later, can these events come close to being comprehended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRepetition\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102221209823,"sku":"9781804298947","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8Q7TNE_T9B9781804298947.webp?v=1781079168","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/repetition-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}