'Breathtakingly powerful' Guardian
'This startling, absorbing book will leave you fizzing with anger and possibility' Noreen Masud
In the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful stranger across a station platform. She follows him home, and over one heady night of wine and cigarettes, recounts to him the devastating story of her life . . .
First published in 1947, Nothing Grows by Moonlight tells the haunting tale of one woman's soul-shattering love affair. When an obsessive passion for her high school teacher consumes a small-town seventeen-year-old, her life spirals out of control, giving way to pregnancy, poverty and alienation. Here, darkness and light converge, and unrequited love blooms against the shadows of societal injustices, as she fights for autonomy: over her life, her mind and her body.
Captivating, visceral and brimming with emotion, Nothing Grows by Moonlight is a feminist classic of Scandinavian literature, and an uncompromising ode to female desire.
| ISBN: | 9780241729663 |
| Publication date: | 6th March 2025 |
| Author: | Torborg Nedreaas |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Feminism and feminist theory Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Social issues Fiction in translation |
'Breathtakingly powerful' Guardian
'This startling, absorbing book will leave you fizzing with anger and possibility' Noreen Masud
In the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful stranger across a station platform. She follows him home, and over one heady night of wine and cigarettes, recounts to him the devastating story of her life . . .
First published in 1947, Nothing Grows by Moonlight tells the haunting tale of one woman's soul-shattering love affair. When an obsessive passion for her high school teacher consumes a small-town seventeen-year-old, her life spirals out of control, giving way to pregnancy, poverty and alienation. Here, darkness and light converge, and unrequited love blooms against the shadows of societal injustices, as she fights for autonomy: over her life, her mind and her body.
Captivating, visceral and brimming with emotion, Nothing Grows by Moonlight is a feminist classic of Scandinavian literature, and an uncompromising ode to female desire.
Nothing Grows by Moonlight features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Feminism and feminist theory, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Social issues, Fiction in translation
Nothing Grows by Moonlight is available in Paperback, Hardback
Nothing Grows by Moonlight was written by Torborg Nedreaas and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Nothing Grows by Moonlight has 208 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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