Long Live the Post Horn!

Long Live the Post Horn!
Vigdis Hjorth
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 208pg
26 Aug 2020 UK
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9781788733137
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Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she' s not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she' s ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months. This is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Vigdis Hjorth' s trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style.
"The ordinary becomes vibrant and life-affirming in Long Live the Post Horn!, an engrossing novel about how evenhopeless battles are worth fighting. " - Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews"Quirky, unsettling. " - Kirkus Reviews"Hjorth' s substantive and witty novel of personal growth delivers on multiple levels. " - Publishers Weekly"A superb story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown" - The Modern Novel"Wrenching tenderness from the mouth of irony, Hjorth proves how major effects don' t always come from the heavy-foot pedals. " - John Freeman, Lit Hub ("Most Anticipated Books of 2020")"An engaging, well-honed novel . . . Hjorth' s writing is both spare and, in an understated way, humorous. " - R. P. Finch, PopMatters"A wry and thoughtful take on contemporary life and love . . . Full of gorgeous Scandi gloom and bleak truths about human relationships" - Daily Mail"[In] Long Live the Post Horn!, the saga of the EU postal directive is an inspired context for a story about personal despair and political awakening. " - Brian Dillon, 4Columns"An acidic portrait of one woman' s fight to save the postal service. " - Megan Evershed, The New Republic"Hjorth holds a magnifying glass to her characters and they fry like ants under the merciless sunlight of her writing. No one of them escapes unscathed, there are no heroes or villains; what we get is a picture of life in a social democracy that is fraying at the edges. " - Charlotte Barslund, Literary Hub"Hjorth expertly interrogates feelings of inadequacy in concise paragraphs of wry prose" - New Statesman
Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and bestselling novels. Will and Testament sold 150,000 copies in Norway and has received several awards, including the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, as well as being nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. She lives in Oslo.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781788733137
Published: 26 Aug 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Weight: 368g
Pages: 208

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