| Edition |
First Archipelago Books edition. |
| Description |
120 pages ; 17 cm |
| Note |
Translated from the Norwegian. |
| Summary |
"A new, deeply personal approach, Ti amo (I love you) is based in Ørstavik’s own experience of losing her Italian husband to cancer. By facing loss directly, she includes readers in an experience that many face in isolation. Written and set in the early months of 2020, its themes of loss and suffering are particularly well suited for a time of international mourning. What can be found within a gaze? What lies inside a painting or behind a handful of repeated words? These are the questions that haunt our unnamed narrator as she tends to her husband, stricken with cancer, in the final months of his life. She examines the elements of their life together: their Vietnamese rose-colored folding table where they eat their meals, each of the New Year’s Eves they’ve shared, their friendships, and their most intimate exchanges. With everything in flux, she searches for the facets that will remain"--Amazon. |
| Subject |
Spouses of cancer patients -- Fiction.
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Terminally ill -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
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Norwegian fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Added Author |
Aitken, Martin, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781953861443 (pbk.) |
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195386144X (pbk.) |
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