{"product_id":"long-live-the-post-horn-isbn-9781788733137","title":"Long Live the Post Horn!","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 Believer Book Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant study of the mundane, full of unexpected detours and driving prose. Hjorth's novel ingeniously orbits the intimate stories that are possible only when a character has put words on paper and sent them through the post.\" – \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, “The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers.\" – Sheila Heti, author of \u003ci\u003eMotherhood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the 2019 National Book Award Longlisted\u003ci\u003e Will and Testament\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEllinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she's ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Vigdis Hjorth's trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style.\"The ordinary becomes vibrant and life-affirming in Long Live the Post Horn!, an engrossing novel about how evenhopeless battles are worth fighting.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Eileen Gonzalez, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Quirky, unsettling.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hjorth’s substantive and witty novel of personal growth delivers on multiple levels.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An emotional, philosophical read...this book is wonderful, and I would urge you to seek it out.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Elspells Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Immersive, original...I really would urge you to read it, to be surprised, and to maybe let it change the way you see certain things.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eElspells\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A superb story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Modern Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wrenching tenderness from the mouth of irony, Hjorth proves how major effects don’t always come from the heavy-foot pedals.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lit Hub (“Most Anticipated Books of 2020”), \u003ci\u003eJohn Freeman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Long Live the Post Horn! is a brilliant study of the mundane, full of unexpected detours and driving prose. ... Hjorth’s novel ingeniously orbits the intimate stories that are possible only when a character has put words on paper and sent them through the post.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Freeman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A wry and thoughtful take on contemporary life and love ... Full of gorgeous Scandi gloom and bleak truths about human relationships\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[In] Long Live the Post Horn!, the saga of the EU postal directive is an inspired context for a story about personal despair and political awakening.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Brian Dillon, \u003ci\u003e4Columns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An acidic portrait of one woman’s fight to save the postal service.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Megan Evershed, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An engaging, well-honed novel ... Hjorth's writing is both spare and, in an understated way, humorous.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—R.P. Finch, \u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hjorth holds a magnifying glass to her characters and they fry like ants under the merciless sunlight of her writing. No one of them escapes unscathed, there are no heroes or villains; what we get is a picture of life in a social democracy that is fraying at the edges.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Charlotte Barslund, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hjorth expertly interrogates feelings of inadequacy in concise paragraphs of wry prose\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Droll and rather delightful\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMonocle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A novel about the chicanery of governmental politics has no right to be this absorbing\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A big strange wonderful paper hug of a book ... I cannot recommend it highly enough\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Literary Addict\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hjorth asks us to imagine a world where those with narrative power protect the stories of the people over the interests of commerce. ... The timing was right for this book in Norway in 2012, and the timing is right for us now. A novel like Long Live the Post Horn! does not come around often enough.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Makenna Goodman, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"funny, wry, insightful, and finally sincere.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Fiona McFarlane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The brilliance of Vigdis Hjorth is her ability to match a distinctive lack of sentimentality with a seductive and questing idealism\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Emily Stewart, \u003ci\u003eSaturday Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hjorth’s novel is a jolting tour de force impossible to put down, gleaming with philosophical insight and tenderness in the most unexpected places.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Denise Rose Hansen, \u003ci\u003e3:AM Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Slim but fulfilling ... Hjorth’s brisk, spare prose invigorates Long Live the Post Horn!, making it a captivating read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Robert Allen Papinchak, \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Luminous ... Lucidly translated by Charlotte Barslund, this slight novel – a chapterless stream of consciousness interrupted by dialogue – can be read in a single sitting.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chloë Ashby, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gripping, inspiring, and politically revolutionary\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alexandra Kleeman, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Long Live the Post Horn! is an ordinary person’s epic tale of how it feels to emerge from the thralldom of apathy: how one feeble movement unleashes the torrential energy of life renewed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ingrid D. Rowland, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Made me want to storm the barricades of Royal Mail\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rebecca Liu, \u003ci\u003eWhite Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A strange and funny and psychologically incisive novel about how community can revitalise, how grassroots activism and empathy are the salves in a world made lonely and malignant by individualism\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Susannah Dickey, \u003ci\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLong Live the Post Horn!\u003c\/i\u003e is a reaffirming novel that reminds one of how sliding into depression is so seamless it barely registers as motion of any kind.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Utkarsh Mani Tripathi, \u003ci\u003eVogue India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eVigdis Hjorth\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. \u003ci\u003eWill and Testament\u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize. 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