Juno Reads Weds November 12th Long Live The Post Horn (SHOWROOM)
For November we are reading Long Live the Post Horn by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund
A superb story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown
The Modern Novel
Luminous ... Lucidly translated by Charlotte Barslund, this slight novel - a chapterless stream of consciousness interrupted by dialogue - can be read in a single sitting.
Times Literary Supplement - Chloë Ashby
Gripping, inspiring, and politically revolutionary
Vanity Fair - Alexandra Kleeman
Made me want to storm the barricades of Royal Mail
White Review - Rebecca Liu
Ellinor, 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.
This is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Vigdis Hjorth's trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style.
Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. Will and Testament sold 170,000 copies in Norway and has received several awards, including the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, as well as being nominated for the National Book Award and Nordic Council Literature Prize. Long Live the Post Horn! won the Believer Book Award for fiction in 2020, and Is Mother Dead was listed for the International Booker Prize in 2023.
JUNO READS is IRL on Wednesday 12th November from 7:30 to 9pm, at SHOWROOM CINEMA CAFE. Feel free to arrive from 7:15 to order drinks before we begin.
Your ticket includes:
A copy of Long Live the Post Horn by Vigdis Hjorth
Access to the IRL group on Wednesday 12th November
Your ticket does NOT include:
Postage. You need to collect the book from Juno Books, 24 Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD. You can also pay extra for postage. Multiple book orders will be posted at the same time so you only need to pay postage once.
For November we are reading Long Live the Post Horn by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund
A superb story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown
The Modern Novel
Luminous ... Lucidly translated by Charlotte Barslund, this slight novel - a chapterless stream of consciousness interrupted by dialogue - can be read in a single sitting.
Times Literary Supplement - Chloë Ashby
Gripping, inspiring, and politically revolutionary
Vanity Fair - Alexandra Kleeman
Made me want to storm the barricades of Royal Mail
White Review - Rebecca Liu
Ellinor, 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.
This is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Vigdis Hjorth's trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style.
Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. Will and Testament sold 170,000 copies in Norway and has received several awards, including the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, as well as being nominated for the National Book Award and Nordic Council Literature Prize. Long Live the Post Horn! won the Believer Book Award for fiction in 2020, and Is Mother Dead was listed for the International Booker Prize in 2023.
JUNO READS is IRL on Wednesday 12th November from 7:30 to 9pm, at SHOWROOM CINEMA CAFE. Feel free to arrive from 7:15 to order drinks before we begin.
Your ticket includes:
A copy of Long Live the Post Horn by Vigdis Hjorth
Access to the IRL group on Wednesday 12th November
Your ticket does NOT include:
Postage. You need to collect the book from Juno Books, 24 Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD. You can also pay extra for postage. Multiple book orders will be posted at the same time so you only need to pay postage once.
For November we are reading Long Live the Post Horn by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund
A superb story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown
The Modern Novel
Luminous ... Lucidly translated by Charlotte Barslund, this slight novel - a chapterless stream of consciousness interrupted by dialogue - can be read in a single sitting.
Times Literary Supplement - Chloë Ashby
Gripping, inspiring, and politically revolutionary
Vanity Fair - Alexandra Kleeman
Made me want to storm the barricades of Royal Mail
White Review - Rebecca Liu
Ellinor, 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.
This is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Vigdis Hjorth's trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style.
Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. Will and Testament sold 170,000 copies in Norway and has received several awards, including the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, as well as being nominated for the National Book Award and Nordic Council Literature Prize. Long Live the Post Horn! won the Believer Book Award for fiction in 2020, and Is Mother Dead was listed for the International Booker Prize in 2023.
JUNO READS is IRL on Wednesday 12th November from 7:30 to 9pm, at SHOWROOM CINEMA CAFE. Feel free to arrive from 7:15 to order drinks before we begin.
Your ticket includes:
A copy of Long Live the Post Horn by Vigdis Hjorth
Access to the IRL group on Wednesday 12th November
Your ticket does NOT include:
Postage. You need to collect the book from Juno Books, 24 Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD. You can also pay extra for postage. Multiple book orders will be posted at the same time so you only need to pay postage once.
