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  • Banner image with the cover of Rune Christiansen's The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life. Text on a black background reads "Excerpt from The Loneliness in Lydia Ernemans' Life by Rune Christiansen". Background images on the left and right are taken from the background design of the book cover, a landscape with a woman's head in outline.
    Banner image with the cover of Rune Christiansen's The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life. Text on a black background reads "Excerpt from The Loneliness in Lydia Ernemans' Life by Rune Christiansen". Background images on the left and right are taken from the background design of the book cover, a landscape with a woman's head in outline.
    July 04, 2023

    Read an Excerpt from The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life by Norwegian Literary Star Rune Christiansen

    In an increasingly connected but paradoxically lonelier world, the idea of true solitude is a complex one. Finding contentment in a quiet life seems both dreamlike and untenably isolating to many, and ...

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