The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life
by Rune Christiansen
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Pub Date 6 Jun 2023 | Archive Date 13 Jun 2023
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Description
Shortlisted for the 2014 Young Critics' Award in Norway
Shortlisted for the 2014 P2 Listeners Novel Prize in Norway
Shortlisted for the 2014 Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Literature
Winner of the 2014 Brage Prize in Norway
Having grown up as an only child in Northern Sweden, Lydia is used to isolation and being on her own. She fills her days with her love of animals, nature, and hard work. She eventually settles into a career as a vet in rural Norway and embraces the rhythms of country life. In a series of poetic sketches, Lydia tends to the animals in her community, spends time with her aging parents, and falls in love. Despite an increasing need for closer human contact that begins to encroach on her contented solitude, ultimately it is Lydia's satisfaction with her inner life that speaks of an elegance and hope often lost in these clamoring times.
Winner of the Brage Prize, the most prestigious award in Norwegian Literature, The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life is a quiet, beautiful exploration of solitude and how we relate to other beings. It has been lauded by European critics for doing something very rare: offering deep pleasure and joy in reading with little theatrics.Written in concise prose, the gravity and tranquility of this novel make it a gift—a soothing, contemplative offering about the depths of our inner worlds.
Advance Praise
Praise for The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life:
“How do you go about making literature of the unobtrusive life? Rune Christiansen offers up a patient and quietly inexorable example in The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life. In Christiansen’s story of a young woman coming to grips with the most universal, most commonplace trials of our existence, nothing is irrelevant, nothing is silent. A lovely, enriching, compelling work of art.” —Michael Crummey, author of The Innocents
“The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life is a brilliant portrait narrated with tenderness, acuity, and expertise. Like the best portraits, it doesn’t reveal its subtexts immediately. Rather, it beguiles us and shows the colouring of a consciousness and how this palette shifts with the surrounding phenomena and pressures—the influence of strangers, seasons, pain, health, habits, dinners—this ongoing flux of renewal, attachment, and demise.” —Moez Surani, author of The Legend of Baraffo
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781771668347 |
PRICE | US$20.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 262 |