{"product_id":"9781911508724-love","title":"Love","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA short, suspenseful Norwegian winter’s tale crafted in beautifully spare and precise prose. A harrowing, tragic story of a mother and her son.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 PEN America Translation Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs clear and relentless as the cold air, \u003ci\u003eLove \u003c\/i\u003eunfolds over one winter’s evening. Single mother Vibeke and her son Jon have just moved to a small, remote town in the north of Norway. Tomorrow Jon will be nine. As Vibeke gets changed after work, Jon wonders what surprises his mother has prepared for him. He leaves the house certain she will make him a cake. But preoccupied with concerns of her own, she too ventures out. Inextricably linked yet desperately at odds, mother and son make their lonely ways through the unforgiving night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeautifully translated into English by Martin Aitken, this edition is the twenty-eighth international publication of \u003ci\u003eLove. \u003c\/i\u003eHanne Ørstavik’s astonishing grasp of human fragility and her economy of form power this acknowledged masterpiece of Norwegian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945935450209,"sku":"9781911508724","price":8.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33976573_15fee02c-46c2-4873-a75f-38d7c9165756.jpg?v=1746046756","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781911508724-love","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}