{"product_id":"grace-9781400078028","title":"Grace","description":"\u003cb\u003eMorally intricate and full of sly humor, \u003ci\u003eGrace\u003c\/i\u003e is a touching and unexpectedly dramatic exploration of the territory between life and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Consistently absorbing . . . An elegant stylist with an original voice (and a top-notch translator, Barbara Haveland), Ullmann is especially good at capturing moments of poignancy, often with a trace of gallows humor.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Johan was a boy, he bargained with Death, and in good time Death obligingly took his father. And when Johan was miserably married, Death kindly took his equine first wife, leaving him a tidy sum. But now, with the Reaper coming for \u003ci\u003ehim\u003c\/i\u003e, Johan cries out for certainties, for control, for dignity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe enlists his adoring second wife, the grace of his otherwise mean existence, to be, \"when he couldn't fight any longer,\" his reluctant angel of death. But as he drifts away into melancholic, hallucinatory recollection, the bonds of their mutual devotion gradually dissolve and the living and the dying begin their inevitable divergence. And as Johan, his wife beside him, slips under the solitary shadow he fears most, we are made to witness the muted tragedy of the Scandinavian way-now more and more our own way-of dying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLinn Ullmann has written a haunting meditation on mortality that nonetheless pulses with the aching beauty of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linn Ullmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.26w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400078028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/22\/2006 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinn Ullmann is a graduate of New York University, where she studied English literature and began work on a Ph.D. She returned to her native Oslo in 1990 to pursue a career in journalism. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper. She lives in Oslo with her husband and their children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLinn Ullmann's \u003ci\u003eStella Descending\u003c\/i\u003e is available in Anchor paperback. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated from the Norwegian by Barbara Haveland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45279876644979,"sku":"9781400078028","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_9cc5bb8e-54fb-49f1-b8f7-a2e4056e44dd.jpg?v=1784894208","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/grace-9781400078028","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}