A novel by a well-known Norwegian feminist writer about a young woman who, after a variety of experiences with family, friends, and lovers, gradually accepts her lesbianism.
Review
The Four Winds is the bittersweet, at times acutely funny, story of Inger, a bright young Norwegian woman from the small town of Frederikstad. After she graduates from high school she spends a year in Edinburgh working as an au pair for a bourgeois Scottish family and then returns to Norway to study at the University of Oslo. Crushes, clandestine relationships and the exciting first signs of the Scandinavian gay liberation movement mark Inger's struggle to come to terms with her sexuality. At the same time, she begins to more clearly understand and face up to the strain placed upon her family by her sister's early death and her parents' alcoholism. The Four Winds is a skillful evocation of the student milieu of norther Europe in the sixties. The Four Winds is an entertaining and endearing chronicle of a young woman's life. -- Midwest Book Review |
