Summary
‘One of the very best authors of our generation’ Karl Ove Knausgaard
Bea Britt lives alone in her grandmother’s house in west Oslo. Early one morning, she wakes to find a police hunt outside her window and drama unfolding on her TV. Volunteers are scouring the local woods looking for Emilie, a missing schoolgirl.
Emilie’s rucksack is found in Bea Britt’s garden. But as her spiralling doubts and suspicions take over, is she a suspect, a witness or a potential second victim?
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910701805 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1910701807 |
| Author: | Kristine Naess, Seán Kinsella |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Harvill Secker |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 461g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 144mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
Few are able to take language closer to life than Kristine Næss, she is one of the very best authors of our generation – Karl Ove Knausgaard
Disciplined, fraughtly tense… It is a dark, claustrophobic examination of three women in varying states of despairing anxiety… This is a dense work of uncomfortable honesty – David Mills * Sunday Times *
Only Human combines a crime mystery from the media with original portraits of women in three generations … three highly individual and yet interconnected stories, which together gives us a surprisingly multidimensional view at the lives we live and how we emerge as people for one another
– jury of The Nordic Council’s Literary AwardAbout The Author
Kristine Naess
Kristine Naess is a writer, editor and literary critic. She is widely regarded as one of the best Scandinavian writers working today, and is celebrated for her distinct, personal voice. Only Human was nominated for the 2015 Nordic Council Literature Prize, and is her debut in English.
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