“I love my mother the way I love the sun, the earth and all the other heavenly bodies. I don’t know when it began, but I know I never stop doing it, mother is in everything, I think all by myself and without being influenced by alcohol or other stimulants.”
Imagine is a poetic and existential novel that draws a peculiar portrait of a woman. The narrator, fifty-five-year-old Søs, reaches a critical time in her life when trouble at work coincides with her mother’s death. The novel portrays a warm and beautiful relationship between mother and daughter, and embraces issues like withdrawal, loss, guilt and taking responsibility for one’s own life.
