About this Event
Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth has been a shop favourite ever since we discovered , a powerful tale about loneliness and the struggle between capitalism and humanity told through the microcosm of the Norwegian postal service. Hjorth will be at the shop to read from (Verso), her sixth novel to be published in English, translated by her indefatigable champion Charlotte Barslund. As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to re-examine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness, exposing a story both utterly familiar and desperately strange. Hjorth will be in conversation with Catherine Taylor.
Catherine Taylor is a writer and critic and the former deputy director of English PEN. Her first book, , won the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize for memoir and life-writing.
Please note: our events start promptly at 7 p.m., so please arrive in good time. next door will be open until 6.55 p.m. for wine, house cocktails and snacks.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Pl, London, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00
