Girl 1983 A Novel
Girl 1983 A Novel by Linn Ullmann, published by W. W. Norton on July 22, 2025, is a literary exploration that intertwines the lives of a woman from 2021 and a girl from 1983. This edition spans 272 pages and is presented in English. The narrative unfolds on a winter night in Paris, where a sixteen-year-old girl finds herself lost in unfamiliar streets, clutching an address that connects her to a photographer thirty years her senior. As the story progresses, the grown woman reflects on her past, seeking to reconcile her present with the memories of her youth.
Readers will encounter a genre-defying journey through memory and oblivion, set against the backdrops of Oslo, New York, and Paris. The novel delves into themes of beauty, desire, and the complexities of power dynamics, as the narrator grapples with a long-guarded secret. Girl 1983 presents a poignant examination of time and place, capturing the essence of a wayward girl navigating her formative years in a city filled with both promise and peril.
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“By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I’m trying to bring them together into one body–the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don’t know if it can be done.”
Paris, a winter’s night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begin to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before.
Set in Oslo, New York, and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a genre-defying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion. As in her landmark previous work, Unquiet, Linn Ullmann’s narrator continues to probe the elegiac sway of memory as she looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward sixteen-year-old girl lost in Paris.
Girl, 1983 is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.
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