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Friendship

Lars Saabye Christensen

Don Bartlett

Part Two of the Echoes of the City trilogy, set in post-war Oslo, by an author who understands the city like no other.

"One of Norway's finest writers" GUARDIAN

"Profoundly resonant" TLS

In Kirkeveien, Oslo, in the year 1956, forty-year-old Maj is worn down by being a homemaker and widowed mother. To the indignation of the Red Cross ladies, she cautiously frees herself from the role she has otherwise fulfilled to the letter. She finds a job that she turns out to be more than good at, and some kind of love, too. Her friend Margrethe is sick of her marriage to the antiquarian bookseller, Olaf Hall, but cannot think of divorce. Jesper gets a girlfriend who opens the door to a new, more liberated environment of vegetarianism and politics. And his best friend Jostein realises that his talent for making money will allow him access to a world that is larger and richer than that of the Oslo slaughterhouse.

Friendship is a beautifully orchestrated story about people and their dreams, about social conventions, personal constraints and what it takes to have the courage to realise oneself. In this book brimming with human insight, as in Echoes of the City, in each of these characters we recognise something of ourselves.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : OCT 27, 2022
  • Imprint : MacLehose Press
  • Page Extent : 400
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781529413359
  • Price : INR 699
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Lars Saabye Christensen

LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN has published a number of novels poetry and short story collections his breakthrough coming in 1984 with Beatles one of Norway's bestselling books still. He received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for The Half Brother in 2001. He has also received the Riverton Prize the Critics' Prize the Brage Prize the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize the Dobloug Prize and the Norwegian Reader's Prize. His novels have now been published in 36 countries.

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