Description
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.
About the Author
Kjersti Skomsvold was born in Oslo in 1979. She published her first novel in 2009, Jo fortere jeg gar, 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.
Reviews
"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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9781628971804
Author Kjersti Skomsvold
Format Paperback
Page Count 525
Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
