Repetition - Vigdis Hjorth artists drinking and debating in

artists drinking and debating in the tea-houses of 1920s Seoul

in his words

is on a nightshift when one of her patients escapes

who adapted it into a film - is one of literature's deepest explorations of doubt

Repetition - Vigdis Hjorth artists drinking and debating inAs 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