If you’re thinking, Not another autofictional trauma plot—don’t. Hjorth’s books—especially her latest, Repetition, now out in English—are much stranger, and more interesting, than that. As readers, we’re accustomed to being steered toward the revelation of a trauma. But what happened to the protagonist of Repetition is never made fully explicit. Again and again, the book returns to one long-ago November. There is knowledge here, but it is a knowledge no one wants, leaving the reader slipping around in the dark.