{"product_id":"repetition-vigdis-hjorth","title":"Repetition - Vigdis Hjorth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRepetition by Vigdis Hjorth \/ 144-page paperback published in 2026 by Verso \/ ISBN 9781804298947\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness, exposing a story both utterly familiar and desperately strange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was the year she first got drunk, the year she first had sex with a boy. She was watched like a hawk by an anxious mother and a silent, distant father. It was a year of typical teenage fixation and typical teenage frivolity, and of all the usual parental fretting. Until something else took hold, and her family made an unspoken decision and a terrible sacrifice. Only now, decades later, can these events come close to being comprehended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Repetition, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48225303363809,"sku":"9781804298947","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/5215\/0960\/files\/Repetition-Vigdis-Hjorth.jpg?v=1776905883","url":"https:\/\/50wattsbooks.com\/en-ca\/products\/repetition-vigdis-hjorth","provider":"50 Watts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}