Bøker av Vendela Vida

From the acclaimed author of the 2007 New York Times Notable Book Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name comes a stunning novel about the love between husbands and wives, mothers and children.Twenty-eight years ago, Peter and Yvonne honeymooned in the beautiful coastal village of Datça, Turkey. Now Yvonne is a widow, her twin children grown. Hoping to immerse herself in memories of a happier time—as well as sand and sea—Yvonne returns to Datça. But her plans for a restorative week in Turkey are quickly complicated. Instead of comforting her, her memories begin to trouble her.Overwhelmed by the past and unexpectedly dislocated by the environment, Yvonne clings to a newfound friendship with Ahmet, a local boy who makes his living as a shell collector. But a devastating accident upends her delicate peace and throws her life into chaos—and her sense of self into turmoil.With the crystalline voice and psychological nuance for which her work has been so celebrated, Vendela Vida has crafted another unforgettable heroine in a stunningly beautiful and mysterious landscape.

From the acclaimed author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name comes a taut, spellbinding literary thriller that probes the essence and malleability of identityIn Vendela Vida’s taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the woman is robbed of her wallet and passport—all of her money and identification. Stripped of her identity, she feels burdened by the crime yet strangely liberated by her sudden freedom to be anyone she wants to be.Told with vibrant, lush detail and a wicked sense of humor, The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty is part literary mystery, part psychological thriller—an unforgettable novel that explores free will, power, and a woman’s right to choose not her past, perhaps not her present, but certainly her future. This is Vendela Vida’s most assured and ambitious novel yet.“Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar. (It’s also insanely funny.)”—Lena Dunham“[Vida’s] finest book....With its echoes of Hitchcock and Highsmith, this novel is full of darting pleasures.”—New York Times

On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iver-ton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and her fiancé has just revealed a life-changing secret to her. Alone and adrift, Clarissa travels to mystical Lapland, where she believes she'll meet her real father. There, at a hotel made of ice, Clarissa is confronted with the truth about her mother's his-tory, and must make a decision about how--and where--to live the rest of her life.

Written in the key of Greta Gerwig's Ladybird, We Run the Tides unravels the tense friendships of a tight-knit group of self-obsessed teenage girls, who, through a small misunderstanding, are forced to confront the secrets they keep and the lies they tell...

Varm og sylskarp oppvekstroman fra San Francisco Tenåringsjenta Eulabee og bestevennen hennes Maria Fabiola vokser opp i et overklassestrøk i San Francisco. De kjenner hvert gatehjørne og hver strand, og på jenteskolen de går på, er det de som regjerer gangene. En dag på vei til skolen blir de utsatt for en ubehagelig hendelse. Men Maria Fabiolas versjon av det som skjedde, er helt annerledes enn Eulabees, og Eulabee nekter å gå med på venninnes løgn. Da Maria Fabiola like etter forsvinner, begynner Eulabee å stille spørsmål ved hva som virkelig er sant og ikke. Vi tøyler tidevannet er en varm skildring av relasjoner mellom unge jenter: makten som ligger i popularitet, ferden mot selvstendighet, de nådeløse vennskapsbåndene. Vakkert og troverdig skildrer Vida ungdommens forvirring og skjønnhet, samtidig som hun serverer en sitrende forsvinningsgåte.

A gun is pointed at 21-year-old Ellis as she walks through a New York park. But when Ellis accompanies her mother, a nurse, on a mission in the Philippines, she finds the life - even if held up - cannot be held back, and neither, finally, can she.

'I missed a train stop twice on the same journey while reading it. That's how distractingly good it is.' Viv Groskop, Independent on SundayFrom 'the hottest young writer in US fiction' (Guardian) comes the perfect summer read.

'Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar... (It's also insanely funny.)' Lena Dunham

'The hottest young writer in US fiction' -- Guardian