Ti Amo

Ti Amo
Hanne Orstavik
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm
6 Sep 2022 UK
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9781913505486
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The protagonist of Ti Amo is a woman who is in a deep and real, but relatively new relationship with a man from Milan. She has moved there, they have married, and they are close in every way. Then he is diagnosed with cancer. It' s serious, but they try to go about their lives as best they can. But when the doctor tells the woman that her husband has less than a year to live - without telling the husband - death comes between them. She knows it' s coming, but he doesn' t - and he doesn' t seem to want to know. Ti Amo is an incredibly beautiful and harrowing novel, filled with tenderness and grief, love and loneliness. It delves into the complex emotions of bereavement, and in less than 100 pages manages to encapsulate an extraordinary scope and depth, asking how and for whom we can live, when the one we love best is about to die.
' What do we really talk about when we talk about "truth" in literature? Orstavik' s painful book on grief provides rich answers. Thoughtful and - even for her - enormously raw, Orstavik accomplishes an astonishing amount in very few pages. ' Morgenbladet ---- ' An exceptionally good novel about grieving and waiting . . . Orstavik writes so well that the book feels essential, timeless and universal. ' Aftenposten ---- ' Orstavik writes mercilessly and beautifully about losing her husband. This little novel is a heart-breaking gem. Ti Amo is an endlessly sorrowful novel, but it' s written with such forceful presence, a kind of wonder and tenderness towards life and a celebration of love, that you can' t help but feel enriched by reading it. It' s very hard and very beautiful. ' Information ---- ' One of the most powerful things about the book is its description of the process of losing someone to illness. The time it takes. That it' s possible to feel bereaved even before death arrives . . . It' s exhausting reading, breathless in its resignation . . . And then, midway through the book, there is a turning point. This is where the book really grabbed me, catching me off guard, brilliantly. Without revealing too much, I will say that it' s one of life' s ambushes deep down in the valley of death, equal parts dream and taboo, possible and impossible, an incident that gives grief a nuance it can probably only have for those who have stared into its eyes long enough. ' Klassekampen ---- ' This little novel from Orstavik opens up spaces full of emotion and wise thoughts about life, love and death. All we can do is say thank you, and enter. ' Klassekampen, Best of 2020 ---- ' Hanne Orstavik has written perhaps her finest novel about her life' s greatest loss. ' Adresseavisen, #1 on the Best of 2020 list ---- ' With Ti Amo, Hanne Orstavik rediscovers the intensity and presence of her first novel Love. Ti Amo explores the liminal experiences that a novel can contain. At the same time we see her oeuvre from a new perspective. It' s a powerful novel about loving, and her best in a long time. ' Astrid Fosvold, Vart Land, Best of 2020 ---- ' A tender novel about losing your closest one to cancer . . . perceptive, thoughtful and brilliantly written . . . [Orstavik' s] novels are characterised by her use of language and words to create identity. She has never done it as successfully and satisfyingly as now . . . above all it' s a beautiful novel. About love in a real sense. ' Adresseavisen, 6/6 stars ---- ' What is true? What is real? How do you get inside another human being? These questions have been central throughout Hanne Orstavik' s work. In her latest novel, Ti Amo, in a story which is her own, she takes these questions to another level . . . Orstavik has an impressive ability to expose a person' s inner world, to find a way in to where it hurts the most and explore complex experiences in simple prose, without everything falling apart. ' Vart Land
With the publication of the novel Hakk (Cut) in 1994, Hanne Orstavik (b. 1969) embarked on a career that would make her one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of Love, which in 2006 was voted one of Norway' s Top Ten book of the last twenty-five years. Love was published to acclaim by And Other Stories in 2019. Upon the novel' s US publication, it won the PEN Translation Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Orstavik has also won a number of prizes in Norway, including the prestigious Brage Prize. Ti Amo is her fifteenth novel.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781913505486
Published: 6 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: And Other Stories
Publisher: And Other Stories
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
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