Unquiet is published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK.
Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visits the father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic Sea.
Now that she's grown up - a writer, with children of her own - and he's in his eighties, they envision writing a book together, about old age, language, memory and loss. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. The tape recorder will record.
Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters
— Rachel Cusk
But old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen. And when the father is gone, only memories, images and words -- both remembered and recorded - remain. And from these the daughter begins to write her own story, in the pages which become this book.
Heart-breaking and spell-binding, Unquiet is a seamless blend of fiction and memoir in pursuit of elemental truths about how we live, love, lose and age.
Cover of the pocket edition, published June 2021.
Watch Linn Ullmann read an excerpt and talk about the novel in this interview at Louisiana Channel – subtitled in English:
Interview in The New York Times Magazine, January 2019: “I don't want my writing to be charming”
Contact (UK and translation)
The Wylie Agency (UK) Ltd
+44 (0)20 7908 5900
mail@wylieagency.co.uk
Contact (US)
The Wylie Agency Inc.
+1 (212) 246 0069
mail@wylieagency.com