Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet? lydbok

The years us 1999. The final year before the future begins. Mattias is a gardener and was born on the night that man landed on the moon in 1969. His greatest wish is not to get in anyone's way, to be anonymous, a functional hole in the universe. He has been with his girl friend for eight years, he has a job he loves and a box of threadbare books about space. He also has a friend who has got a job as a musician on the Faroe Islands in the summer and has said yes, he will go along as the soundman – someone has to sort out the sound. According to plan he will be back home in a week. But it doesn't take much to rock the boat. One drop too many in the ocean, and a storm is let loose. It will be a long time before Mattias returns home. A long time. First he will almost disappear.

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Belgium, KOPERGIETERY

Italy, Iperborea

Poland, Smak Slowa

Romania, Casa Cărții de Știință

Quotes from Finnish reviews:

"Buzz Aldrin was one of the best translated novels in 2007, if not the best. What with all the praise, Harstad's previous short story collection has now been published. The stories in Ambulanssi (Ambulance) are melancholy plunges into the seemingly monotone lives of ordninary people whose inner life is anything but monotone. Harstad has an admirable gift of digging deep into the essence of man and conveying, in an understanding and empathetic way, the most intimate of feelings onto the pages of his books"

Kaleva, 15.2.2008

“Everyman takes over - Johan Harstad’s debut novel Buzz Aldrin belongs to the elite among Scandinavian bestsellers...As a storyteller Harstad is fluent and funny, he is a kindred spirit with Don DeLillo and John Irving, and his humour bears a likeness to that of Erlend Loe.”

Dagsstidningen /Keskisuomalainen 19.4.2007 circulation 74 84

Quotes from Italian reviews:

"The book has a rare intensity, somewhat reminiscent of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest or even (with a slight exaggeration) of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain."

Daniele Abbiati, il Giornale

”It would be no exaggeration to claim that the novel Che ne è stato di te, Buzz Aldrin? ... written by the young author Johan Harstad is a strong candidate for the title Book of the year. After receiving wide attention at the Frankfurt Book Fair, it has been translated into seven languages and has become a bestseller in Scandinavia. (...) A novel packed with surprises: Already in the the two opening lines, the reader is whisked away by the author’s poetic, yet direct style.”

Gian Paolo Serino, D, la Repubblica

"To be number two and still live life as an adventure (…) the title is intended as a hommage to Buzz Aldrin, who was the second man on the moon and unknown to most of us (…)

From the very first sentence, the narrator displays a wonderful sense of irony: “The person you love consists of 78 percent water, and it hasn’t rained in a fortnight …”

Alessandro Beretta, Il Corriere della Sera - Milano

"A bildungsroman, a celebration of ”not standing out” (…) One is guided into an enchanted and solitary Nordic landscape (…) Travelling on a Ship of Fools in search of a dream."

f.f, La Repubblica - Milano

Quotes from Danish reviews:

"Superficially a cliché-ridden, predictable and over-dimensioned Norwegian novel about a drowsy young man’s awakening – but executed in language that presages a major canon of work ... The fact is that Johan Harstad has a wholly unique voice, simultaneously both concrete and soaring ... The ability to write in such a fashion, to present a situation and compose time and space about it with such a linguistic cadence cannot be learned. It is something one is born with. Harstad’s compatriot, Knut Hamsun, who was capable of the same, must be joyous in his heaven, or wherever else he might be."

Jakob Levinsen, Jyllands-Posten

"... the story is told with such sweetness and charm ... that Johan Harstad’s little masterpiece must simply be read – the sooner the better."

Jonas Hindsholm Bentzen, Børsen

"Norway already possesses a Kjærstad, a Fløgstad and a Solstad. Now there’s also a Harstad. Following preliminary skirmishes with a couple of short-story collections, young Johan Harstad has made his debut as a novelist with a giant 630-page work. The novel, “Buzz Aldrin, what happened to you in all the confusion?”, is a broadly constructed tale of breakdown and rehabilitation, of a person who prefers to live in the shadow of others and who identifies with Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. That the novel has achieved such dimensions is primarily owing to the author’s extraordinary inventiveness both with and within the langua...