Linn Ullmann

Parkinson's disease becomes apparent only after substantial loss (>60%) of the dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra. By this time there has already been widespread neural inclusion formation in the peripheral and central nervous system of patients with the disease, although this has only been recognized more recently. Degeneration in these...

Ullmann's characters are complex and paradoxical: neither fully guilty nor fully innocent Siri Brodal, a chef and restaurant owner, is married to Jon Dreyer, a famous novelist plagued by writer's block. Siri and Jon have two daughters, and together they spend their summers on the coast of Norway, in a mansion belonging...

A NovelJohan has sometimes been fortunate but never particularly successful: he lost his job for a breach of professional integrity, and he and his son havent spoken in eight years. His greatest happinesshis graceis his competent, confident wife Mai, who loves him unreservedly. Now, with six months to live, and with Mais help, he intends...

A NovelStella descends, over and over, in the course of this haunting novel. She falls from the womb, since her mother gives birth standing up; she falls for Martin, who delivers her new green sofa and refuses to leave; she falls ill and eventually recovers; but her biggest fall, the descent that suffuses her story, is a plunge to her death off a...

A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost from the internationally acclaimed author of Grace and Stella Descending.Every summer Isak Lvenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammars. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly find a sense of family and friendship, although nothing can match...