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The Sleeping Prince is an imaginative tour de force about a frustrated, middle-aged spinster and her fantasy lover.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Norwegian
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First published in Norway in 1971, this engaging novel (Faldbakken's fourth) varies the "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tale into the realm of serious psychological fiction. Maude, a 47-year-old virgin, is in love with Mr. Eldmann, a quiet, unassuming fellow boardinghouse resident. She convinces herself that Eldmann is communicating with her in a secret "language of love"; in reality she's bogged down in a quagmire of self-deception. Maude's repressed sexuality becomes pathological, and as her state of mind deteriorates, her fantasy, to find a "sleeping prince," assumes disturbing proportions. Faldbakken writes convincingly from the point of view of the troubled spinster; if her fussiness is somewhat claustrophobic early in the book, the language eventually achieves a supple tension, becoming, by the dark twist at novel's end, appealingly expansive.
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- PublisherPeter Owen Publishers
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0720607108
- ISBN 13 9780720607109
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages200
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