Dove and Drone
By Kjartan Fløgstad
Description
Factory workers arrive from London, along with pilot officer Olav Sima, who is tasked with interviewing a German officer with a lot to lie about.
In peacetime, in central Oslo, the lawyers submit detailed missives about how few dealings took place between the Norwegian capitalists and the Germans. Money has no smell – apart from a mild hint of cyanide.
In Bjølsen, eastern Oslo: Forced evacuee Kcenia stands in the dairy. Constable Sima is patrolling the streets, studying law and maintaining order in the dairy queue. But keeping Kcenia’s boy in order isn’t quite so easy. Even further east, little Oksana Starkopf is faithfully practising the piano, and inherits a chest containing a manuscript.
The post-war period tightens its grasp. Olav Sima becomes a lawyer; the boy’s condition worsens. Both often journey west, over the mountains and on across the Atlantic, where the United States welcomes them with open arms.
