The Year

A Novel

By: Tomas Espedal, James Anderson (Translator)

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Hardcover | 13 October 2021 | Edition Number 1

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212 Pages

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In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedalâs work stands out as uniquely bound up with the authorâs personal experiences. His first book, Tramp, introduced us to the wanderer Tomas; Against Art told us how a boy approaches art and eventually becomes a writer; Against Nature examined loveâs laborâ"the job of writing; and in Bergerners, he is torn between his love for his home town and what lies beyond. Now, in The Year, we encounter the authorâs struggle to reconcile his inner life with the external world, and the myriad forms of love, hate, loss, and deathâ"both personal and literaryâ"with the immutable pattern of time and the seasons. It is the journal of a year, a diary like no other. And suffusing it all are questions Petrarch asked: How do you live when the one you love is gone? And when your life force shifts from spring to autumn, how do you find the good death?

Written as a long poem, The Year is Espedalâs riveting stream of consciousnessâ"profound, edgy, sometimes manic, but always intensely intimate.

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"This is superb literature, which in its accomplished aesthetic form offers insight and a melancholy comfort when it comes to all the losses we experience. But it is also a homage to everything that's beautiful, lovely and painful in our existence. Give it to somebody you love."-Bergens Tidende * Praise for the Norwegian edition *

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