Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug
A mother and daughter are split into separate realities after a tiny typographical glitch shunts the mother into an alternate present. Over the years, each builds a life while haunted by an inexplicable absence, their parallel stories threaded with music, literature, and the mutability of language and time. Both poignant and playful, the narrative explores grief, chance, and the mysterious ways that small errors can fracture a life—and the fragile hope that estranged timelines might one day touch.
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- Published
- 2018
- Nationality
- Norwegian
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-220
- Original Language
- Norwegian
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- Alternate Titles
- - Presens maskin
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