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Monsterhuman

Kjersti Skomsvold author Becky Crook translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:29th Sep '17

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When Kjersti A. Skomsvold was seventeen years old and about to start engineering studies at college, she found herself almost unable to move. “Laid out like a relic” in a nursing home, she listens to an old woman dying, watches her boyfriend drift away, and makes compendious lists of her worries (that she will have to go speed-dating in a wheelchair, that she will be afraid and in pain for the rest of her life). She also begins to compose a novel on Post-it notes that she sticks on the wall above her bed.

"Bold, witty, and deeply existential, Monsterhuman is a bildungsroman that turns the story of a young woman's chronic fatigue syndrome into an intellectual journey, at once grave and comic." * Paris Review *
"Another gifted Norwegian." * Irish Times *
"A masterwork of control and characterization." [The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am] * National Public Radio *
"Norwegian author Kjersti Skomsvold's debut [The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am] . . . is a sparkling jewel of a novel." * Publishing Perspectives *

ISBN: 9781628971804

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

525 pages