Unquiet: A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Family Life, Literary
Cover of the book Unquiet: A Novel by Linn Ullmann, W. W. Norton & Company
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Linn Ullmann ISBN: 9780393609950
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: January 15, 2019
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Linn Ullmann
ISBN: 9780393609950
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: January 15, 2019
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

Praised across Scandinavia as a "literary masterpiece," "spellbinding," and "magnificent," Unquiet reflects on six taped conversations the author had with her father at the very end of his life.

He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that she’s grown up and he’s in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that he’s losing his language, his memory, his mind. Growing old is hard work, he says. They will write it together. She will ask the questions. He will answer them.

When she finally comes to the island, bringing her tape recorder with her, old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen.

Unquiet follows the narrator as she unearths these taped conversations seven years later. Swept into memory, she reimagines the story of a father, a mother, and a girl—a child who can’t wait to grow up and parents who would rather be children.

A heartbreaking and darkly funny depiction of the intricacies of family, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old. Linn Ullmann nimbly blends memoir and fiction in her most inventive novel yet, weaving a luminous meditation on language, mourning, and the many narratives that make up a life.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Praised across Scandinavia as a "literary masterpiece," "spellbinding," and "magnificent," Unquiet reflects on six taped conversations the author had with her father at the very end of his life.

He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that she’s grown up and he’s in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that he’s losing his language, his memory, his mind. Growing old is hard work, he says. They will write it together. She will ask the questions. He will answer them.

When she finally comes to the island, bringing her tape recorder with her, old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen.

Unquiet follows the narrator as she unearths these taped conversations seven years later. Swept into memory, she reimagines the story of a father, a mother, and a girl—a child who can’t wait to grow up and parents who would rather be children.

A heartbreaking and darkly funny depiction of the intricacies of family, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old. Linn Ullmann nimbly blends memoir and fiction in her most inventive novel yet, weaving a luminous meditation on language, mourning, and the many narratives that make up a life.

More books from W. W. Norton & Company

Cover of the book Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book House of Sand and Fog by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir of Food and Family by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book Yellow Jack: A Novel by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book Falling Awake: Poems by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse by Linn Ullmann
Cover of the book The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them by Linn Ullmann
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy