The Looking-Glass Sisters

by GØHRIL GABRIELSEN

Translated from the Norwegian by John Irons

Written in 2008, published in this translation in September 2015 by Peirene Press*

This book explores the oxymoron of the abusive carer; bound by duty but fuelled by resentment.

The northern expanse of Norway is a land of extreme conditions and opposites, with long dark winters and summers of constant light. Here, a pair of middle aged sisters, living otherwise alone in this isolated landscape, have been locked together in a bitter power struggle for their entire adult lives.

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