The Story of a Marriage

Geir Gulliksen, Deborah Dawkin

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Chatto & Windus
15 May 2018

Adult & contemporary romance; Fiction in translation

A short, intense, utterly compelling novel from Nordic Prize-nominated author Geir Gulliksen, Knausgaard's editor in Norway.

It's a portrait of marriage and manhood that will provoke debate, introspection and passionate responses from readers

'Brilliant and breathtaking...sexy and sad' A.M. Homes

In his struggle to understand what has happened to his family, how his wife could fall in love with another man after twenty happy years, Jon attempts to tell the story of the painful collapse of his marriage, but from her point of view.

He tries to get inside her head, to see it all as she did, all the while knowing that he can never really achieve this, and that his efforts reveal more projection than insight.

How can one truly know another person?

How much of what we think is love, is just a construct?

Is it possible to find - and maintain - the great love we long for?

Gulliksen explores these questions, turning them over again and again till they crack, revealing hollowness - or possible new meanings.

Intense, erotic, dramatic, raw - Story of a Marriage examines two people's inner lives with devastating and fearless honesty.

It is a gripping but slippery narrative of obsession and deceit, of a couple striving for happiness and freedom and intimacy, but ultimately falling apart.

By: Geir Gulliksen
Translated by: Deborah Dawkin
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 275g
ISBN: 9781784741600
ISBN 10: 1784741604
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 15 May 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Geir Gulliksen is a publisher and highly acclaimed writer of fiction and non-fiction. In 2014 he received the Aschehoug Award for his work, and this novel was nominated for the Nordic Prize. He lives in Norway.

Reviews for The Story of a Marriage

Bristling with the urgency of lived experience, this is a short and beautifully written account of love's autoimmunity. -- Andrew Anthony * Observer *