Be Kind to the Animals
Vær snill med dyrene
A small family of three is falling apart. They couldn’t make it. Karen couldn’t make it. While doing everything right – parting as friends, signing the papers, sharing custody, the way a modern woman is supposed to, everything inside her is rebelling. No, the child is mine. I’m its mother. There is nothing modern about me.
Be Kind to the Animals is a raw, warm, acute, but at the same time surprising novel about being in the ruins of a marriage with the one you care about the most – every other week.
Winner of the 2016 Norwegian National Book Award Brageprisen for Fiction.
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‘An extraordinary reading experience’
Hamar Arbeiderblad
‘…. merciless, but also surprisingly funny, with an abundance of ideas.’
Morgenbladet
‘An incredibly beautiful and precise description of a life dilemma. The world needs to see this book.’
Sissel Gran, author, psychologist and marital therapist