{"product_id":"girl-1983-linn-ullmann-hardcover","title":"Girl, 1983 -- Linn Ullmann, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Linn Ullmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.5\" H x 5.97\" L x 0.96\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781324066354\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50747078508848,"sku":"9781324066354","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781324066354_6c7fa63a-dc10-4346-8494-21f0aad8431e.jpg?v=1775208791","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/girl-1983-linn-ullmann-hardcover","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}