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Merethe Lindstrom has published several novels and collections of short stories, and a children's book. She was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and for the Norwegian Critics' Award in 2008 for her short-story collection The Guests. The same year, she received the Doubloug Prize for her entire literary work. Days in the History of Silence is her most recent novel, nominated for the Norwegian Channel 2 Listeners' Novel Prize, and winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Norwegian Critics' Prize. She lives in Oslo, Norway. Anne Bruce has degrees in Norwegian and English from Glasgow University covering both Nynorsk and Bokmal, classic and modern texts, written and spoken Norwegian, as well as Old Norse, Icelandic, Swedish, and Danish. She has traveled extensively throughout Scandinavia on lecture and study visits, and undertaken translation and interpretation for visiting groups from Norway. She has translated Wencke Mühleisen's I Should Have Lifted You Carefully Over, Jorn Lier Horst's Dregs, and Anne Holt's Blessed Are Those Who Thirst.
This remarkable novel explores the theme of silence in many different forms--a children's game, a refuge, a lie, a punishment, a solution--and shows its impact on those who long to be spoken to....The prose is simple and elegant, revealing an extraordinary talent. --Publishers Weekly This deeply intimate character portrait dwells in the intersection of nostalgia, loss, and forgotten histories... Bruce's translation allows Lindstrom's sparse and evocative prose to shine, giving equal weight to both highly dramatic and domestically mundane events. Fans of Anne Holt, Nicholas Mosley, and Max Frisch will savor Days in the History of Silence. --Booklist In gentle, precise, and thoughtful prose Lindstrom relates how a dramatic past slowly breaks into an elderly woman's life and consciousness. --The Nordic Council .. . engrossing. The layers of silence that are stacked so neatly within this narrative are skillfully and precisely constructed, so that peeling one back only releases another. --Minneapolis Star Tribune A quiet and unnerving masterpiece. --Norway Times Lindstrom interweaves past and present in an intricate and gradually highly suggestive tale that makes use of a sober, simple language. In masterly fashion, she shows how remaining silent isolates the narrator Eva and her husband Simon from a sense of belonging they both actually long for...By means of a finely tuned, simple language [Lindstrom]...expands out small everyday circles so that they become part of the large historical circle in which we all findourselves. --Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature Judgment An intimate and intense narrative about losing oneself through losing other people.... One of this year's most memorable novels. --Sindre Hovdenakk, Verdens Gang In unobtrusive, elegant, and incisive prose, [Lindstrom] has produced a drama of everyday life that insinuates itself under the reader's skin. --Turid Larsen, e
