Ullmann

A heart-rending work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers Paris, a winter’s night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begins to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before and looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret. Set in Oslo, New York and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a genre-defying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion – a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.

"Egy téli éjszakán egy tizenhat éves lány bolyong elveszve Párizs utcáin. Zsebében egy cetlin a harmincéves fotós, A. címe. A lány még nem tudja, hogy ami ezen az éjjelen történik majd, gyökeresen meg fogja változtatni az életét... "Azáltal, hogy megírom mindazt, ami történt, azáltal, hogy elmesélem a történetet, az igazsághoz olyan hűen, amennyire csak tőlem telik, megpróbálom egyetlen testté összeforrasztani őket kettőjüket - a nőt 2021-ből és a lányt 1983-ból." - Linn Ulmann regényének elbeszélője kétségbeesett igyekezettel próbálja összerakni életének darabjait, és folytonosságot teremteni a múlt traumatikus eseményei és a jelen tapasztalatai között. Megszállott utazásba kezd a feledés rétegein át a legrejtettebb és legsúlyosabb emlék felé. Oslo, New York és Párizs elevenedik meg a könyv lapjain, hogy a töredékek nyers, őszinte és kíméletlen történetté álljanak össze hatalomról, vágyról, szorongásról, testről és szégyenről. És a kételyről: lehetséges-e békére lelni."

He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and once loved. Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visits the father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic Sea. Now that she's grown up - a writer, with children of her own - and he's in his eighties, they envision writing a book together, about old age, language, memory and loss. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. The tape recorder will record. But it's winter now and old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen. And when the father is gone, only memories, images and words -- both remembered and recorded - remain. And from these the daughter begins to write her own story, in the pages which become this book. Heart-breaking and spell-binding, Unquiet is a seamless blend of fiction and memoir in pursuit of elemental truths about how we live, love, lose and age. 'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSK

Minimalism: Less is more: minimalism stands for simple, clear and often geometric forms. This book offers a well-grounded overview of this architectural style, one of contemporary architecture's major trends. After an introduction to the development and consequences of minimalism in the arts, the book presents a number of international projects. Clearly written, informative articles and a wide range of high-quality colour photographs provide a broad overview of the possibilities of minimalist design in the areas of fashion, architecture, furnishing and interior design.