A Ghost Story

Name: A Ghost Story
Author: Geir Pollen
ISBN: 9788205475595

By Geir Pollen

Description

The narrator in A Ghost Story, a paper engineer who has taken early retirement, does not re-visit his own past – he is haunted by it. The scenario is a night train between St Petersburg and Moscow. From this point the narrative spreads out into the great world outside: a whole life summed up in just over a hundred small pages of a novel.

Product information

Original titleEn spøkelseshistorie

Publication year2016

Pages160

CategoryFiction

Praise

Geir Pollen is an eloquent feinschmecker in Norwegian contemporary literature.

Dag og Tid

Reading Geir Pollen can in fact make you lose sleep ... In less than 150 pages he creates a suggestive, but pregnant story about isolation and withdrawal, about fear of life as much as of death. This gives many good, existential chills.

Aftenposten

6 out of 6 stars

Stavanger Aftenblad

5 out of 6 stars

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