{"product_id":"girl-1983-linn-ullmann-9781324134343","title":"Girl, 1983","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I'm trying to bring them together into one body--the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don't know if it can be done.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis, a winter's night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begin to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Oslo, New York, and Paris, \u003cem\u003eGirl, 1983\u003c\/em\u003e is a genre-defying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion. As in her landmark previous work, \u003cem\u003eUnquiet\u003c\/em\u003e, Linn Ullmann's narrator continues to probe the elegiac sway of memory as she looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward sixteen-year-old girl lost in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eGirl, 1983\u003c\/em\u003e is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linn Ullmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324134348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324134343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Linn Ullmann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48460325224703,"sku":"9781324134343","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17f3a640-8d00-46ec-9646-28529f38cb82.jpg?v=1777414010","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/girl-1983-linn-ullmann-9781324134343","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}