If Only
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Verso Fiction
ISBN-10
1839768886
ISBN-13
9781839768880
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 17th, 2024
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
286 grams
Dimensions
12.70 x 19.80 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Ksh 2,350.00
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NYPL's Best Books of 2024A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth
<i>A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter. January and minus 14°C, white, frosty mist around the parked car, around the spruces, the mailbox on its post, but higher up the sky is blue, clear, the sun has come back. She has written in her diary that she is waiting for the heartbreak that will turn her into her true self. She has an impending sense of doom or possibly her own death.</i><br><br>Can passion be mistaken for love? When Ida meets Arnold, also married, at a conference, she impulsively invites him to share her bed. She returns home, already half-obsessed, and the dissolution of her marriage and break-up of her family pass almost without her noticing. Arnold has a more relaxed attitude toward the affair. But neither his coolness nor the alarming talk she hears about him can dampen her desire. When she finally has Arnold for herself, all the surface niceties and indulgences they enjoy – travel, sex, beers for breakfast and cocktails for dinner – can’t sustain the sweetness of the fantasy. Their mounting jealousies and insecurities metastasize, resulting in violence and addiction.<br><br>In urgent prose, with layers of candid and vivid detail, Hjorth shows just how devastating love can be when it binds the wrong people.
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