Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, Dorthe Nors
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, Dorthe Nors
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Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
A Novel

Author: Dorthe Nors, Misha Hoekstra

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 4 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/03/2018


Synopsis

Sonja is ready to get on with her life. She's over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascination. She sees a masseuse, tries to reconnect with her sister, and is finally learning to drive. But under the overbearing gaze of her driving instructor, Sonja is unable to shift gears for herself. And her vertigo, which she has always carefully hidden, has begun to manifest at the worst possible moments.

Sonja hoped her move to Copenhagen years ago would have left rural Jutland in the rearview mirror. Yet she keeps remembering the dramatic landscapes of her childhood?the endless sky, the whooper swans, the rye fields?and longs to go back. But how can she return to a place that she no longer recognizes? And how can she escape the alienating streets of Copenhagen?

In Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, Dorthe Nors brings her distinctive blend of style, humor, and insight to a poignant journey of one woman in search of herself when there's no one to ask for directions.

About Dorthe Nors

Dorthe Nors is the author of two novellas, So Much for That Winter; a story collection, Karate Chop, winner of the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize; and four novels. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, A Public Space, Tin House, and elsewhere. She lives in Denmark.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on May 01, 2018

Inexplicably longlisted now for two major translation prizes. Sonja is over forty, a translator of Swedish crime fiction, unmarried and without children, now physically distant from her country upbringing and her parents, and emotionally distant from her married sister Kate who remains there and has......more

Goodreads review by lucky little cat on November 24, 2018

For those who like their visits from the Black Dog accompanied by a side of blues. Brief, moody, and almost entirely plotless. Forty-something Sonja lives in Copenhagen, but has become weary of the superficiality of her life there. She yearns for her farm-girl past back in the sticks in Jutland, but......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 27, 2017

With the job Sonja has, that’s something she knows quite well: language is powerful, almost magic, and the smallest alteration can elevate a sentence or be its undoing. Book 4 from the 2017 Man Booker International longlist. Dorthe Nors was better known (to me at least) in English as a writer of very-......more

Goodreads review by Christian on December 15, 2016

Jeg er fan af Dorthe Nors. På den lidt stille måde. Ingen skrigen, ingen tshirts, ingen breve, ingen plakater og ingen førsteudgaver. Det her er bare så godt, at jeg i al fredsommelighed har støbt en 1:1 messingfigur af hende som jeg danser uhysterisk rundt om.......more