{"product_id":"long-live-the-post-horn-paperback","title":"Long Live the Post Horn! - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVigdis Hjorth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Barslund\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 Believer Book Award for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A brilliant study of the mundane, full of unexpected detours and driving prose. Hjorth's novel ingeniously orbits the intimate stories that are possible only when a character has put words on paper and sent them through the post.\" - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers.\" - Sheila Heti, author of \u003ci\u003eMotherhood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of the 2019 National Book Award Longlisted\u003ci\u003e Will and Testament\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEllinor, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Vigdis Hjorth's trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVigdis Hjorth\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. \u003ci\u003eWill and Testament\u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize. She lives in Oslo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769152274720,"sku":"9781788733137","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4207e333f996fc2e04f22acc0cfeff90.webp?v=1780342986","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/long-live-the-post-horn-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}