Obsession

Two adults meet under dramatic circumstances and remain caught up in each other’s lives. Susanne, a publishing editor, and Ola, a psychologist, both work, in their own ways, to help others navigate life. Yet each is struggling alone with their own existence until they meet. They talk, clash, move closer and pull away again in dialogues charged with insight and resistance, while living separate lives at opposite ends of the tram line. In this way, the outer and inner worlds become intertwined in a novel where powerful emotions are always grounded in the everyday lives these two people inhabit.

In Obsession, Herbjørg Wassmo writes with intimacy and fearlessness about the conditions of attachment, about desire, grief and the forces that bind us, even when we try to break free. This is a story about daring to love, and about what it can cost.