An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society -- publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrationsIn front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked th...
Bjørn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a...
A dark and moving examination of one man’s derailed life, by the Norwegian master who is “without question, Norway’s bravest, most intelligent novelist” (Per Petterson) In this existential murder mystery, it is Christmas Eve, and fifty-five-y...