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Garden Song

Summer. Sylvia, who is a writer, stays at home, her husband Mikkel has taken the kids on holiday. Or have they left her for good? While the grass is growing in the garden, Sylvia writes like a maniac, to the point where the text is threatening to become more important than anything else.

Garden Song is a wild growing, lyrical novel that also contains a collection of short stories.

“Linguistic sensibility, a high level of reflection, humor, and existential pain. Aasne Linnestå’s new novel is sorely good. (…) Aasne Linnestå has reached new levels in her writing with this new novel. (...) The bird moif, the rhythm, and the theme of madness and writing are reminiscent of the iconic Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf."
(Dagbladet)

“Aasne Linnestå’s fifth book, and third novel, is one of her best. (…) Linnestå is a writer with a unique voice, raw, with sore undertones. The best thing about reading the novel is that you often have no idea what to expect in the next sentence. This creates a productive anticipation of surprise.”
(DN Magasinet)

“An anomalous, good novel about disappearance.”
(Klassekampen)

First published: 2011, Aschehoug
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