{"product_id":"the-looking-glass-sisters-by-gohril-gabrielsen","title":"'The Looking Glass Sisters' by Gøhril Gabrielsen","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"51\" data-end=\"486\"\u003eA taut, wintry Norwegian novella about two sisters locked together in a claustrophobic life of dependence, resentment, illness and control.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"51\" data-end=\"486\"\u003eOne sister is physically fragile and largely housebound; the other moves between caretaker, jailer, rival and witness. What begins as domestic isolation gradually becomes something sharper: a psychological pressure chamber where love, obligation and cruelty become almost impossible to separate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"918\"\u003ePeirene does this kind of concentrated European unease very well, and this one sits nicely in that zone of bleak intimacy: snow, silence, bodily vulnerability, unreliable perception, and family relation as trap. Good for readers of translated fiction, Nordic psychological fiction, sister novels, strange domestic noir, and books that turn a small interior world into something gothic without needing to announce itself as horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"920\" data-end=\"1188\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeirene Press paperback, first published in Great Britain in 2015. First published in Norwegian as \u003cem data-start=\"1047\" data-end=\"1082\"\u003eSvimlende muligheter, ingen frykt\u003c\/em\u003e in 2008; translated by John Irons. Good second-hand condition, with light shelfwear\/handling.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45685717270611,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_68.png?v=1781090676","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-looking-glass-sisters-by-gohril-gabrielsen","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}