The Looking-Glass Sisters
Svimlende muligheter. Ingen frykt
Far out on the desolate inland plains of northern Norway, there is a house. The house is shared by two sisters. They seldom leave the house. Nobody has visited them for a long time. One sister can’t get out of bed and needs nursing. The other simply never left. They live beyond conventions, north of common custom. Are they trying to keep each other alive – or to kill each other? When did their kind feelings turn into hatred? When a man enters the picture the conflict sharpens. The sisters realize that one of them has to go, and a series of surprising incidents and bizarre situations follow.
Inventive and darkly humorous, The Looking-Glass Sisters is a raw depiction of the determined struggle for power and mutual dependence between two sisters.
‘[…] a work of intelligence, empathy, intensity and exceptional beauty and originality.’
Lancashire Evening Post
‘[…] Gabrielsen’s novel disturbs and challenges. Once we have begun, though, it is near impossible to pull away.’
The National
‘It’s a liberating feeling when you get a completely original story in your hands. Gøhril Gabrielsen’s second novel is such a story.’
Dagbladet
