A Ghost Story
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 TidReading 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.
Aftenposten6 out of 6 stars
Stavanger Aftenblad5 out of 6 stars
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