Undis Brekke (Innbundet)
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Forfatter:
| Forfatter: | Gunnhild Øyehaug |
| Innbinding: | Innbundet |
| Utgivelsesår: | 2014 |
| Antall sider: | 125 |
| Forlag: | Kolon |
| Språk: | Nynorsk |
| Originaltittel: | Undis Brekke |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9788205457706 |
Omtale Undis Brekke
The Dinner Party is about 37-year-old Undis Brekke who returns to the farming community she grew up in, in order to teach Norwegian at the local college, even though she is thoroughly fed up with students. She arrives just in time for the annual Christmas dinner at the faculty for Nordic studies, where she is forced to confront various scraps and pieces of her own childhood and adolescence that she has attempted to sweep under the carpet. Betrayal, hope and anxiety, writer’s block, male and female exes, pre-menstrual syndrome, childhood friends and parents are all potent ingredients in this portrait of a woman who is struggling to keep her head above water. How can you defend your own values, how can you see your own retina, how can you approach your own mother and how can you eat a whole, charcoaled sheep’s head … the novel addresses all these issues. Foreign Sales: Denmark, Gyldendal Praise "a real pageturner about longing and self-deception - brilliantly written with lots of black humour" Kamille "Few Norwegian writers can depict life's gravity with a more liberating lightness than Gunnhild Øyehaug" ***** (5/6 stars) VG "Incredibly well composed ... an impressively tight and fast-paced novel" Bergens Tidende "It's exhilaratingly well written, it's sharp and it's terrible and it's very recognizable - also for for those who have never set foot on a small town university ... The abrupt zoomings and all the layers lying there talking with each other makes the novel a feast" NRK "As is fitting for this excellent entertainer, there is also darkness and seriousness in Øyehaug's writing. Little by little Undis takes shape as a vulnerable little girl, betrayed by her mother and an outcast at school. The caricature of the failed academic gets an undertone of desperation and trauma. Undis Brekke is a pleasurable crisis novel that you'll be loath to put down" Aftenposten "A funny, unusually well-written book ... moves elegantly from vivid depictions of the disgusting head which is about to be eaten, through sharp observations of professors of Norwegian at a party, to more vulnerable sections on longing, growing up and a difficult mother-daughter relationship" Dagsavisen "Art and life are connected in Øyehaug's book, which achieves both, by sharpening its skills in at least two important verbs: thinking and looking." Dagens Næringsliv
en perle, med både elegant lek og dypt alvorOla Jacob Hoel, Adresseavisen
Andre utgaver
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| Nynorsk | Ebok | 2014 | |
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| Nynorsk | Heftet | 2015 | |
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| Bokmål | Nedlastbar lydbok | 2022 | |
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Anmeldelser Undis Brekke
«Få skildrer livets alvor med en mer befriende letthet enn Gunnhild Øyehaug her til lands.»
Mari Nymoen Nilsen, VG
«Uhyre velkomponert... Gunnhild Øyehaug har skrive ein imponerande tett og drivande roman om ein stipendiat i krise.»
Sindre Ekrheim, BT
«Som den gode humoristen hun er, finnes det også mørke og alvor hos Øyehaug. Gradvis vokser Undis fram som en sårbar jentunge, sviktet av mor og utstøtt på skolen. Karikaturen av den mislykkede akademikeren får en undertone av desperasjon og traumer. Undis Brekke er en lystbetont kriseroman man nødig legger fra seg.»
Ingunn Økland, Aftenposten
«Det er drivande godt skildra, det er skarpt og det er frykteleg og det er høgst gjenkjenneleg - også for den som aldri har sett sine bein på ein distriktshøgskule, berre så det er nemnt. [...] Dei brå zoomingane og alle laga som ligg der og snakkar med kvarandre gjer romanen til ein fest å lese. 'Fest' som i 'no har eg opplevd noko nytt, interessant og dessutan moro', ikkje som i 'smalehovudkalas med kollegaer i Eitre'.»
Marta Norheim, NRK
«Det hele blir til en skikkelig pageturner om savn og selvbedrag – strålende skrevet med masse svart humor.»
Elsebeth Danielsen, Kamille