Half

2023: Inge arrives on St. Croix in the Caribbean,
the island that her mother comes from. She brings with her two co-workers and a brand-new position in Equinor. A massive fire has broken out on an oil platform, and the newly graduated diversity consultant has been issued to calm down the local population with a face that they can see themselves in. At the airport she is received by her mother, whom she hasn’t seen in fifteen years. The reunion brings with it old memories that Inge has tried to forget, but also stories that go way further back in time, interweaving Danish-Norwegian colonial history with the history of her family.

1759: City court judge Engebret Hesselberg longs to leave the Caribbean colony behind and return home. As the extended arm of the King, he will end up being responsible for one of the most brutal incidents of the Danish-Norwegian slave trade. Half is a novel about inheritance,