"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.
Romanen er i to delar. Den første delen følgjer tankane til Olai, som redd og spent venter på at kona skal føde han sonen Johannes. Den andre delen er forteljinga om Johannes’ veg over til den andre sida, den dagen i livet hans då alt er heilt likt
Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language lit
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the wate
