The Looking-Glass Sisters
3.5/5
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Far out on the plains of northern Norway stands a house. It belongs to two middle-aged sisters. They seldom venture out and nobody visits. The older needs nursing and the younger keeps house. Then, one day, a man arrives…
Why Peirene chose to publish this book: ‘This is a tragedy about a woman who yearns for love but ends up in a painfully destructive conflict with her sister. It is also a story about loneliness â€" both geographical and psychological. Facing the prospect of a life without love, we fall back into isolating delusions at exactly the moment when we need to connect.’
Meike Ziervogel
‘It’s a liberating feeling when you get a completely original story in your hands.’
Dagbladet
‘Raw and dark and wonderfully different from anything else.’
Dag og Tid
‘Innovative and sensuous.’
Bergens Tidende
Gøhril Gabrielsen
Gøhril Gabrielsen grew up in Finmark, the northernmost county in Norway and currently lives in Oslo. She has published many novels including Dizzying Opportunities which was published as The Looking Glass Sisters by Peirene Press in 2015. Gabrielsen won Aschehoug’s First Book Award in 2008, the Tanum Women Writers Prize in 2010 and the Amalie Skram Prize for her oeuvre in 2016. Ankomst is Gabrielsen’s fifth novel and was awarded the 2017 Havmann Prize for northern Norway literature.
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Reviews for The Looking-Glass Sisters
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5"A life devoted to looking after a shabby, sickly sister out in the wilds"By sally tarbox on 7 April 2018Format: Kindle EditionSome of the Peirene novellas are compulsive reading, unputdownable...this isn't one of them, and I struggled through the 180 pages for well over a week.Set in the remote North of Norway, it's narrated by a middle-aged disabled woman. Confined to the house, she is completely dependant on her elder sister, Ragna, for absolutely everything. Ragna is resentful, vengeful... but the narrator is no saintly invalid, as she spies on Ragna, screams abuse, tries to wrest back some power to herself, whether through the spells she casts, her writings, her actions. And as Ragna embarks on a relationship with a man she's met, her sister feels more vulnerable than ever...It's vivid, it brims with bile and fury...but I have to say it was with relief that I reached the last page. Maybe *2.5