Before You Sleep

The international bestseller--a debut novel of passion and subtlety that links three generations of eccentric, formidable womenThrough the sublimely unreliable voice of its narrator, Karin, Before You Sleep reaches back from present-day Oslo to 1930s Brooklyn to relate the emotional legacies of the Blom family. Karin is both playful and melancholy--a serial seductress who defines herself in contrast to the women in her life: her mother, Anni, alluring, manipulative, and melodramatic; her sister Julie, a wife and mother undone by suspicions of her husband's infidelity; her aunt Selma, "the world's angriest old woman"; and her soldier-grandmother June who bets that Karin will be "the best damn soldier of them all." Inventive and wise, funny and disquieting, Before You Sleep marks the arrival of a gifted new literary voice.Ullmann, Linn is the author of 'Before You Sleep' with ISBN 9780140298338 and ISBN 0140298339.