Norma / Sofi Oksanen ; translated from the Finnish by Owen F. Witesman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oksanen, Sofi, 1977- author.

Contributor:

Witesman, Owen, translator.

Standardized Title:

Norma. English

Language:

English

Finnish

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Magic realism (Literature).

Magic realism (Literature)--Fiction.

Beauty, Personal--Fiction.

Beauty, Personal.

Genre:

Fiction.

Paranormal fiction.

Magic realist fiction.

Physical Description:

305 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First United States edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

Summary:

"When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining. As Sofi Oksanen leads us ever more deeply into Norma's world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"A novel"--Jacket.

Other Format:

Online version: Oksanen, Sofi, 1977- Norma.

ISBN:

9780451493521

0451493524

OCLC:

966392957