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The Looking-Glass Sisters (excerpt)
Gøhril Gabrielsen
Gøhril Gabrielsen, born in
1961, grew up in Finnmark,
the northernmost county
in Norway, and currently
lives in Oslo. She won
Aschehoug’s First Book
Award for her 2006 novel
Unevnelige hendelser
(Unspeakable Events), and was the recipient of the 2010
Tanum Scholarship for Women.
The Looking-Glass Sisters
is “a tragic love story about two
sisters who cannot live with or without each other. Far out
on the plains of northern Norway stands a house. It belongs
to two middle-aged sisters. They seldom venture out and
nobody visits. The older sister needs nursing and the
younger keeps house. Then, one day, a man arrives…”
Translated from Norwegian by John Irons.