Under brosteinen, stranden! ebok

TERNINGKAST 6 - Sindre Hovdenakk, VG. Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach! is a novel about the discovery of a paving-stone-shaped object which, when touched, is said to create the illusion of having lived an entire life within seven minutes. Centered around a group of teens in Stavanger in the late nineties, taking numerous historical and geographical detours to the Soviet Union, Berlin, Warsaw, small-town Iceland, Shanghai and, last but not least, the island Tristan da Cunha in the sixties, featuring suburban youth on the hunt for the next industrial exhaust fan to warm themselves by in the evenings, Cold War spies with multiple and shifting loyalties, Zapatistas who keep things local, marijuana wholesalers of questionable mental caliber, young people in love, amateur radio dads who are all widowers, old-school and new-school sailors, Icelandic ecoterrorists, suicidal single moms, self-tormenting clinical directors, psychiatric patients (and some who probably should’ve been), an adventurous local meteorologist from Stavanger, an astrophysicist with an urgent need to explain himself about non-academic topics, and with guest appearances from figures like Andrei Tarkovsky and Erich Mielke, the novel explores the idea that time might never really have been on our side after all.This is an epic story about waiting; for life to begin, for things to pass, waiting for the right one, waiting for death, waiting in vain. It is a novel about Ingmar, Jonatan and Peter. And Ebba.Foreign Sales:Denmark, GutkindGermany, UllsteinThe Netherlands, PodiumCroatia, OceanMorePoland, Wydawnicza Relacja / Mamania