A little red hat.
Little protection for a 16-year-old girl who decided, against her mother's advice, to leave New York for Paris at the invitation of A., a famous photographer thirty years her senior.
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This man named A. works for French
Vogue
.
He spotted the child in an elevator.
Promises him the moon.
Like the magnificent
Register of Concern
(Actes Sud, 2018) that Linn Ullmann dedicated to his parents, the Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann and the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman,
Daughter, 1983
is a fragmented story.
And this fragmentation of eras and situations comes from its strength.
Linn Ullmann's writing is a navigation in very moving waters.
Also read: Notebooks 1955-2001: writings and whispers of Ingmar Bergman
Sometimes she lights up with the deep love and memories shared with her mother in their little vacation cabin in Norway.
Sometimes she dives very deep.
So deep that she almost drowns.
Moreover, throughout the pages, the author does not hide the fact that she struggles with depression to achieve…
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