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Long Live the Post Horn!
Long Live the Post Horn! | Vigdis Hjorth
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"Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers." Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? From the author of the 2019 National Book Award Longlisted Will and Testament Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she's ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months. This is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Vigdis Hjorth's trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style.
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SamAnne
SamAnne
Long Live the Post Horn! | Vigdis Hjorth
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Finished this last night with my reading companion Mr. Junebug. July bug? Quirky book with themes really resonating with me right now. Fans of Jenny Offil‘s Weather might like this one. Woman disconnected from the world and all the people around her is shaken out of her disengagement. When one of her fellow P.R. consultants bails on work and life, his project is thrown onto her plate: Save the Norway postal service from an EU directive! ⬇️

SamAnne She becomes the David to Goliath to stop privatization of mail delivery which threatens jobs and salaries of postal workers. She comes alive to the world championing a cause that seems mundane and small. But often lives are made better because people care about the tiny battles, small efforts in life. They connect us to people, the world, ourselves. Great writing, dark humor, sentences that pierce the heart. Long Live the Post Horn!!! 2y
Lindy Nice review! I enjoyed this book too. 2y
SherryJones “David and Goliath” is a terrific metaphor for this wonderful story. I loved it, too, Sam. I look forward to discussing it with you and the rest of our book club this evening! 2y
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breadnroses
breadnroses
Long Live the Post Horn! | Vigdis Hjorth
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i bought this book for my dad for christmas & since i had a copy of the e-book, i decided to also read it so we could talk about it. honestly, i didn‘t find the first half of the book very compelling but once the postal workers and their fight against the EU directive were introduced, it really started to pick up & there were even moments that moved me to tears! long live the postal service! 📬🌹

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shanaqui
shanaqui
Long Live the Post Horn! | Vigdis Hjorth

This is... conclusively Not My Thing, but it prominently features a postal service (or so I'm told) and that makes it perfect for my feature on the Postcrossing blog (https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/tag/books -- not the most recent post, but the two before that). It's short... I can do this...!

Mostly I don't like the stream-of-consciousness narrative style, and the main character is (intentionally) vague and disconnected. Meh. Not my thing.

rabbitprincess Thanks for the link to your blog posts! I enjoyed reading them 😊 3y
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lauraisntwilder
lauraisntwilder
Long Live the Post Horn! | Vigdis Hjorth
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Norwegian postal unions fighting an EU directive with the help of a PR consultant who is having a personality crisis. Topical, because long live the post office!

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