Girl, 1983

Paris, winter 1983. At sixteen, she wanders lost, holding the address of K, a photographer thirty years older. Decades later, as her life and world unravel, the grown woman seeks to understand her younger self. Set in Oslo, New York, and Paris, Girl, 1983 traces memory and oblivion, exploring a long-guarded secret. Linn Ullmann's remarkable novel crisscrosses time and place, following a wayward sixteen-year-old navigating Paris and the echoes of her past.