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At forty-two, Elsie Lindtner begins recording a life unsettled by feelings she cannot easily explain. Written as letters and fragments of a diary, Karin Michaëlis's novel follows a woman seeking solitude beside a northern lake while looking back at her marriage, her friendships and her own changing needs. The introduction presents her private reflections as an unusually candid account of a crisis in middle age.
The diary passages move between emotional attachment and a wish to withdraw from ordinary life. Elsie burns a letter from Malthe, accepts Jeanne's attentive care and listens to Torp's ghost stories as winter closes around her secluded home. Small disturbances can shake the peace she claims to have found.
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- Author
- Karin Michaëlis
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 81
- Language
- English
- Genre
- World Classics
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