Summary
Monica Isakstuen: Be good to animals
In the award-winning novel (winner of Norway's highest literary prize 2016 Brageprisen) Be good to animals, and in Norway it is considered one of the best books about divorce in general: a small family of three falls apart. It didn't work for them. Karen failed. Even though she did everything right – she and her husband parted as friends, signed the papers, shared custody, as expected of a modern woman – everything in her is revolting. Doubts creep in. No, the child is mine. I am his mother. There is nothing modern about me. Some key questions arise: To what extent is the role of the mother related to the concept of family? Is the daughter still hers when she is with the father? If you're a mother one week, what are you the next? Be kind to animals is an unrestrained, warm, sharp, but at the same time unexpected novel about life in the ruins of a marriage with the person you care about the most - every other week.
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