Repetition

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

In a Norwegian November, when it is dark at waking and dark at sleeping, a novelist in her sixties sits next to a teenaged girl at the opera, and through their padded jackets feels a dreadfully familiar tension conducted from the parents seated on her far side.

She thinks back to her sixteenth year. The year she first got drunk and the year she first had sex with a boy. A year of being circled by an anxious, hawkish mother and, at a notable distance, her silent father. The year her family made an unspoken decision, and an unspeakable sacrifice.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781804298947
Published: March 2026

Number of pages: 144
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 9 mm

Publisher: Verso Books