Inheritance and wills

Author's name: Vigdis Yut

Four brothers, two summer houses, and a terrible secret—the bestselling book by one of Norway's most important novelists. When the dispute over her parents' will escalates, Bergliot is drawn back into the family circle she fled twenty years earlier. Her parents have decided to leave two summer houses to her two sisters, depriving the two older brothers of the most significant part of the estate. To outsiders, it's a quarrel over property and favoritism. But Bergliot, who has harbored a terrible secret since childhood, understands this decision as something entirely different: a last-ditch attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel new insult to the wounded. This novel is a literary meditation on trauma and memory, as well as an angry description of a woman's struggle to survive and have her story believed. Vigdis Jut's novel caused a literary sensation in Norway, won numerous awards, was translated into more than thirty languages, and sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. It is her first work to be translated into Arabic.