On a warm night in Oslo, Martin draws Stella into one of the risky games that have defined their ten years together: a balancing act on the edge of their rooftop, seven storeys up. Amid the shouts of horrified onlookers, Stella stumbles, falling for a moment into Martin's arms before plummeting t...
En dag går barndomen i kras. En dag mitt i sommaren, på en ö mitt i Östersjön. Erika och Ragnar ses där varje år, de är födda samma dag och just denna dag är deras fjortonde födelsedag.Erika och Ragnar har ett särskilt band, men när födelsedagen är över har bandet brustit med våldsam kraft. Det s...
They didn’t know what it was they had found. But they knew it wasn’t the treasure. It was the opposite of treasure. Later, when asked to explain to the police and their parents why they had been in the woods, Simen found this hard to do. Why had they started digging in that particular clearing? U...
The island had weathered worse storms, those who had always lived there would say. Erika crawled out of bed and crept into the hall; she thrust her feet into Isak’s green Wellingtons and unlocked the front door. The wind whipped at her nightdress and hair, lifted her and carried her down to the s...
. . . Linn Ullmann transforms the average into the extraordinary.”—Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)“A deep rumination on the meaning of life [and] a cautionary tale for those who might think that the word unbearable is easy to define, for the dying as well as for those who love them.” —St...