«Vil du virkelig ødelegge livet ditt», sier venninnene til Hannah da hun forteller at hun skal ha barn med Magne. Prøve og feile er en roman om et nesten helt normalt par. Som alle småbarnsforeldre har Magne og Hannah sine utfordringer, men med Magnes rullestol blir selv en strandtur til Huk en strabasiøs odyssé. Til tross for en master i litteraturvitenskap sitter Magne i en dårlig betalt jobb som hotellresepsjonist. Men med sin synlige funksjonsnedsettelse utgjør han i det minste et kjærkomment uttrykk for hotellkjedens raushet og mangfoldspolicy. Magne og Hannah hadde tenkt at de skulle vise verden. Vise verden at de kan få det til, vise verden at det var mulig. Men det er mye som kan gå galt. Det finnes mange måter å mislykkes på.
Author
Author and academic. My work deals first of all with embodiment - with what it means to be a body in an endlessly complex world. I've worked in various genres, combining literary exploration and elements of science fiction and speculative fiction, publishing five short story collections, a novel, and several children's books. My book of autobiographical non-fiction, I Live a Life Like Yours, was first published in Norwegian in 2018. “The book will, in all likelihood, linger as a mile stone signifying that a new maturity is reaching autobiographical literature in Norwegian non-fiction,” wrote Morgenbladet’s Ane Farsethås. Dagbladet’s reviewer called the book ”a literary masterpiece that I recommend in the strongest terms!”, giving the book five stars. The book went on to win the Literary Critics’ Award and has been nominated to the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize – as the first Norwegian non-fiction book in 50 years. The English translation, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, will be available in August, 2021.
