Repetition

<b>One of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young</b><br><br>As 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.<br><br>It 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.<br><br>In <i>Repetition</i>, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.