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Book

My work

Author

Olga Ravn

Call Number

  • FICTION RAVN (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023.

Physical Description

391 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms--fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters--to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature"--

Notes

"A New Directions Paperbook Original."

"Copyright ©2020 by Olga Ravn & Gyldendal, Copenhagen. Translation copyright ©2023 by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell"--Title page verso

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