Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine Hveberg Klara

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICKA remarkable and heartbreaking debut novel with the lyrical beauty and emotional resonance of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and the thematic complexity of Asymmetry, that combines fractal mathematics and classical music to explore the infinitely complex patterns of love and the thin border between great passion and great loneliness.Rakel has always been more comfortable with numbers than with people. At nineteen, she moves to Oslo to attend university. A gifted woman with a rare talent for math, she has never mastered the art of making friends.

There she meets Jakob, a brilliant older teacher who becomes fascinated by Rakel's quick mind.Jakob is struck by the similarities between Rakel and Sofja Kovalevskaja,