Longing - Hardcover

Kopperud, Gunnar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582341478 ISBN 13: 9781582341477

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, 2002

Synopsis

A novel of love, war, and the search for mankind's ultimate dream.

He is a European war reporter, she is a North African freedom fighter. She has killed and he has witnessed it. This is what divides them; this is what binds them together. Through a series of journeys, arguments, and stories-sometimes told by the man, sometimes told by the women-Kopperud weaves a complex narrative of longing and desire that explores our collective myths and dreams and our attempts to escape the nightmares of war and disaster.

Longing is an extraordinarily ambitious novel, marked by vivid storytelling and arresting imagery. Rooted in the real world of love and conflict, the man and the woman range the earth from South America to Tibet, at once longing for an elusive spiritual peace and fearing the loss of contact it may bring.

About this title

About the Author

Gunnar Kopperud was born in Norway in 1946. He has worked as a war reporter in Africa for the Norwegian press and the Associated Press, and he is the author of the novel The Time of Light. He lives in Norway.

Tom Geddes is the award-winning translator of The Way of the Serpent by Torgny Lindgren, Dreamers by Knut Hamsun, and The Tale of a Dog by Lars Gustaffson.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Norwegian

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1582341478
• ISBN 13: 9781582341477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256