Present Tense Machine
Presens Maskin
Present Tense Machine introduces us to the mother and daughter Anna and Laura. In one startling second, the world splits into parallel universes at one point in the 1990s. Anna and Laura are pulled into separate universes. Twentyone years later, life has gone on as if nothing happened, but in each of the women’s lives, something’s not quite right.
Present Tense Machine is a novel about life’s irreparable loneliness. And about love.
Nominated for the Youth’s Critics’ Prize 2018
“After numerous essays, short stories, poems and three novels, Gunnhild Øyehaug emerges as one of the country’s smartest, coolest writers.”
NRK
“Gunnhild Øyehaug makes fiction great again. A triumph of the imagination. Luminous and masterful. A beautiful novel about loss, loneliness and community.”
Dagbladet, 5 out of 6 stars
“A novel that expands the mind.”
Bergens Tidende, 5 out of 6 stars
