You Alone
By Hilde Børresen Hagerup
A brutally beautiful love story based on real events. You Alone is a powerful and moving young adult novel based on the true story of Gunvor Hofmo and Ruth Maier.
Description
A brutally beautiful love story based on real events.
You Alone is a powerful and moving young adult novel based on the true story of Gunvor Hofmo and Ruth Maier. It’s a tale that reveals both the brightest and darkest experiences a young person can face.
Akershusstranda, Oslo, November 26, 1942: As the D/S Donau pulled away from the dock, Gunvor Hofmo stood alone. Just moments earlier, she had seen her beloved Ruth Maier for the last time. Ruth never returned to Gunvor. Only days later, she was killed in Auschwitz. What happened would shape Gunvor Hofmo’s life and poetry more than anything else.
is a deeply emotional and brutally beautiful novel that brings readers close to Hofmo and Maier in the time just before they met and during their relationship in wartime Norway.
Praise
This is how it should be done! [...] It is shocking and brilliantly executed.
NRK (Six out of six stars)One of this year’s truly powerful reading experiences […] This is a magnificent book, shocking from start to finish, painful and beautiful.
KlassekampenA beautiful love story [...] She lets the language itself create a love that ignites, sparkles, and shines.
Vårt LandA rarely successful young adult novel that combines historical precision, poetic language, and human gravity [...] The novel has a special presence and tension.
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