A Blessed Child, by Linn Ullmann, trans. Sarah Death

Cries and whispers on the chilling Baltic breeze For any daughter of a creative titan, a career in the arts means that an extra peak will rise over and above the usual mountains that she has to climb. In Linn Ullmann's case, two further summits loomed: her father was Ingmar Bergman and her mother is Liv Ullmann, the Norwegian actor-muse whose dark star smouldered over several of the Swedish master's most... [read full story]