Repetition : A Novel by Vigdis Hjorth

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. 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. In Repetition, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.

Series:Verso Fiction
Format:Paperback / softback 144 pages
Publisher:Verso Books
Imprint:Verso Books
ISBN:9781804298947
Published:3 Mar 2026
Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation
Weight:132g