<p><b> ''A masterpiece. It pushes the fused power of memoir and story to a new dimension'' Ali Smith</b><br><br><b>A heart-rending work of autofiction from one of Norway''s most prominent literary writers</b><br><br><i>¿By writing down what happened, by telling the story as truthfully as I can, I¿m trying to bring them together into one body ¿ the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don¿t know if it can be done''</i><br><br>Paris, a winter¿s night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begins to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before.</p><p><br>Set in Oslo, New York and Paris, <i>Girl, 1983</i> is a genre-defying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion. As in her landmark previous work, <i>Unquiet</i>, Linn Ullmann continues to probe the elegiac sway of