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Present Tense Machine: A Novel

by Gunnhild Øyehaug

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Paperback · 176 pages Picador · 2023

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Present Tense Machine

“An ingenious pocket universe.” —Caitlin Horrocks, The New York Times Book Review
“Gunnhild Øyehaug is a magician of the highest rank.” —Catherine Lacey

On an ordinary day in Bergen, Norway, in the late 1990s, Anna is reading in the garden while her two-year-old daughter, Laura, plays on her tricycle. Then, in one startling moment, Anna misreads a word, an alternate universe opens up, and Laura disappears. Twenty years or so later, life has gone on as if nothing happened. In each of the women’s lives, however, something is not quite right.

Both Anna and Laura continue to exist, but they are invisible to each other and forgotten in each other’s worlds. Both are writers and amateur pianists. Both are married; Anna had two more children after Laura disappeared, and Laura is expecting a child of her own. They worry about their families, their jobs, the climate—and whether this reality is all there is.

In the exquisite, wistful, slyly profound Present Tense Machine, Gunnhild Øyehaug delivers another dazzling renovation of what fiction can do, a testament to the fact that language shapes the world.



The book, Present Tense Machine: A Novel [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781250862983 in Paperback by Gunnhild Øyehaug may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 20 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.

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Publisher
Picador
Author
Gunnhild Øyehaug
Format
Paperback
Published
Jan 10, 2023
ISBN-13
9781250862983
ISBN-10
1250862981
Pages
176
Carton quantity
44 copies
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