Girl, 1983 (Used Hardcover) - Linn Ullmann, Martin Aitken (Translator)

Paris, a winter’s night in 1983. The girl 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 begins to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before. Set in Oslo, New York, and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a bravura quest through layers of oblivion that probes 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, stark, and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.

Published 2025 W.W. Norton & Co., First American Edition

267 pages

6" X 8.5"

Condition: This book is in Very Good Condition. It is like new except for slight wear on one corner and a small stain on the back cover. The pages are clean and unmarked.