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Is Mother Dead

by Vigdis Hjorth - £11.99  Verso Books (2023)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781804291849 | ISBN 10: 1804291846

Translated by Charlotte Barslund
 
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial modern classic, Will and Testament.
 
**Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2023**
 
'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought about a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new proximity, after decades of acrimonious absence, set both women on edge, and before too long Johanna finds her mother stalking her thoughts, and Johanna starts stalking her mother's house.

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