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Publication year: 2023
192 pages
1. edition
Norwegian

If it Doesn’t Burn

A poetic graphic novel by Ronja Svenning Berge.

Linda lives with flat mates in a shared accommodation. She goes out drinking with her friends, works, lives a normal life. At the same time, she carries with her a brutal experience, which re-surfaces for her when she finds a box of stuff she thought she’d long gotten rid of.

This is not a story about drowning in one’s inner darkness. It is a story about finding out how to live with it. And most of all, it is a story of friendship.

«Wonderfully painful and beautiful at the same time [...] The simple visual language is wonderfully beautifully executed.»

Nettavisen

«Poetic and beautiful [...] Ronja Svenning Berge's debut book is among the most beautiful Norwegian graphic novels I have read.»

Framtida