The Story of a Marriage
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- 85,00 kr
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- 85,00 kr
Publisher Description
'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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gulliksen's U.S. debut chronicles the end of a marriage, a story that is at times gripping but often feels familiar. The novel is narrated by Jon, a Norwegian writer, as he tries to piece together the events that led to his wife, Timmy, falling for another man. It opens with the now-separated couple discussing what went wrong. From here, Jon backtracks to spotlight the first encounter between Timmy, a doctor working for the Department of Health, and her new partner, Gunnar, at a talk on public health. Timmy and Gunnar become friends through their shared love of athletics, and begin running, skiing, and horseback riding together, all while Jon stays home with their two boys. He expresses his desire to see Timmy with another man and encourages her to take Gunnar on as a romantic partner, but as time passes and Timmy tests his proposal, he fears she will leave him. Though the book is well structured and unafraid to explore the darkness of a crumbling marriage, there's little that distinguishes it from other domestic novels.
