Monsterhuman - (Norwegian Literature) by Kjersti A Skomsvold (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Originally published in Norwegian by Forlaget Oktober in 2012."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>When Kjersti A. Skomsvold was seventeen years old and about to start engineering studies at college, she found herself almost unable to move. "Laid out like a relic" in a nursing home, she listens to an old woman dying, watches her boyfriend drift away, and makes compendious lists of her worries (that she will have to go speed-dating in a wheelchair, that she will be afraid and in pain for the rest of her life). She also begins to compose a novel on Post-it notes that she sticks on the wall above her bed.</p><p> <i>Monsterhuman</i> is an autofictional tour de force--a funny, sad, astoundingly energetic novel about suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, the power of writing, and twenty-first-century literary life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A masterwork of control and characterization." <i>[The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am]</i>--National Public Radio<br><br>"Another gifted Norwegian."--Irish Times<br><br>"Bold, witty, and deeply existential, <i>Monsterhuman</i> is a bildungsroman that turns the story of a young woman's chronic fatigue syndrome into an intellectual journey, at once grave and comic."--Paris Review<br><br>"Norwegian author Kjersti Skomsvold's debut <i>[The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am]</i> . . . is a sparkling jewel of a novel."--Publishing Perspectives<br>
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