Speed reading: Lucy Popescu on novels in translation

06 August 2020, The Tablet

In Gøhril Gabrielsen’s taut psychological thriller Ankomst (Peirene Press, £12; Tablet price £10.80), a nameless research scientist is measuring the impact of climatic changes on seabird populations.

In Gøhril Gabrielsen’s taut psychological thriller Ankomst (Peirene Press, £12; Tablet price £10.80), a nameless research scientist is measuring the impact of climatic changes on seabird populations. As she waits for her lover to join her on a frozen peninsular in northern Norway, isolation takes its toll. Memories and imagination collide. We learn about the reasons she has left behind her young daughter, and the trauma that has shaped her recent decisions.

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