Long Live the Post Horn!
Leve posthornet!
Ellinor is a communications consultant in her thirties. She can’t help but feel that her life is lacking meaningful intensity, that her life is a trivial contrast to her feelings of despair. When a colleague suddenly leaves the firm Ellinor has to see through a project all by herself.
By teaching postal workers in Postkom about media, influence and politics, Ellinor is supposed to better equip them in their opposition to the implementation of EU’s Postal Legislation. However, the question arises; who is teaching whom?
Winner of The Norwegian Literary Critics’ Prize for best work 2012
‘a brilliant study of the mundane, full of unexpected detours and driving prose. (…) Hjorth’s novel, lucidly translated by Charlotte Barslund, ingeniously orbits the intimate stories that are possible only when a character has put words on paper and sent them through the post.’
New York Times
‘a substantive and witty novel of personal growth.’
Publisher’s Weekly
‘… a fantastic book. There are few contemporary writers who explore loneliness with greater courage. Hurrah for Hjorth!’
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