{"product_id":"repetition","title":"Repetition","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness, exposing a story both utterly familiar and desperately strange.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It was the year she first got drunk, the year she first had sex with a boy. She was watched like a hawk by an anxious mother and a silent, distant father. It was a year of typical teenage fixation and typical teenage frivolity, and of all the usual parental fretting. Until something else took hold, and her family made an unspoken decision and a terrible sacrifice. Only now, decades later, can these events come close to being comprehended.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRepetition\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Repetition","offer_id":46166115123397,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-80429-894-7.jpg?v=1777673739","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/repetition","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}