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.

ISBN:	9781250862983
Publisher:	Picador USA
Imprint:	Picador USA
Published date:	10 Jan 2023
DEWEY:	839.8238
Language:	English
Number of pages:	176
Weight:	454g
Height:	191mm
Width:	127mm
Spine width:	25mm

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