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Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature) Paperback – September 29, 2017

by Kjersti Skomsvold (Author), Becky L. Crook (Translator)
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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.

Monsterhuman is an autofictional tour de force--a funny, sad, astoundingly energetic novel about suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, the power of writing, and twenty-first-century literary life.

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    525 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Dalkey Archive Press
  4. Publication date
    September 29, 2017
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1628971800
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1628971804
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"Norwegian author Kjersti Skomsvold's debut [The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am] . . . is a sparkling jewel of a novel." ― Publishing Perspectives

"Another gifted Norwegian." ― Irish Times

"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

"A masterwork of control and characterization." [The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am] ― National Public Radio

About the Author

Kjersti A. Skomsvold was born in Oslo in 1979. She published her first novel in 2009, Jo fortere jeg går, jo mindre er jeg [The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am], which won the Tarjei Vesaas' Debutant Prize and is available in English from Dalkey Archive Press. She is the author of several novels, plays, a poetry collection, and a children’s book.

Becky Crook is a writer and literary translator of Norwegian and German novels into English. In 2010 she founded SAND, a biannual English literary journal in Berlin. She lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dalkey Archive Press (September 29, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 525 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1628971800
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1628971804
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
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A story both about conquering your difficulties and wether conquering difficulties is meaningful or meaningless. A wonderful meditation on composing a life.
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