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The
2005 Award
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The Golden Section by Pernille Rygg translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Igi
Heitmann is being stalked. In the suburb of Oslo where she lives with her
cross-dressing husband and their daughter, someone is spray-painting the
walls of the houses. HEITMANN=CHILD KILLER, the graffiti says. Who would
think such a thing, and how do they know where she lives? On a bitter winter's
evening, Igi attends the opening of the exhibition of an artist whose use
of violent pornography has caused great controversy. A video is playing,
in which a young man is strangled as part of a sado-masochistic sex game.
The video is real, the killing played out live to its unwitting audience,
and one of Igi's clients is accused of murder. Igi finds herself trapped
in a post-modern nightmare, as she explores the world in which art, sex
and violence meet. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Pernille Rygg was born in 1963. She has studied history and ethnology, for several years worked as a set painter for film companies and for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company. The Golden Section is her third novel. |
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