A Day by the Sea
By Per Marius Weidner-Olsen
Vincent and his family of five are on a holiday by the Mediterranean. The kids are learning to swim, eat ice creams under a scorching sun, and make memories for life. In the…
Description
Vincent and his family of five are on a holiday by the Mediterranean. The kids are learning to swim, eat ice creams under a scorching sun, and make memories for life. In the evenings, the family attend gatherings with their friends and extended family. However, both Vincent and Astrid can feel their marriage beginning to unravel, and none of them can find it in themselves to make an effort to prevent it.
A Day by the Sea follows a man during and after a breakup. Attentive to the hidden meanings behind words and gestures, Per Marius Weidner-Olsen has written a probing novel about waiting for a release that never happens.
Per Marius Weidner-Olsen is born in Bærum in 1963 and lives in Færder municipality. He made his debut in 2020 with the novel (Forlaget Oktober). The book was nominated for the Brage Award in the fiction category and was very well received amongst critics. In the autumn of 2022, his second novel, , was published. is his third novel.
Praise
Per Marius Weidner-Olsen is a master of portraying a falling man. […] There is no doubt that Weidner-Olsen has written a delicate, poignant, and thought-provoking rendition of a man’s descension into a state of being that has, by the end of the story, not yet found its form. Instead, it ends undecided in the question of whether one is to choose love or freedom.
Marius Wulfsberg, DagbladetWeidner-Olsen utilizes changing points of view in a masterful way, in dialogues spanning the caring, the sarcastic and the meaningless. […] A masterfully conducted novel […] Few Norwegian novels succeed in portraying what Vincent calls “the nauseating freedom” as precisely as this.
Tom Egil Hverven, Klassekampen«[A] novel with an exquisite eye for detail […] Per Marius Weidner-Olsen is in full control of his literary devices in this headstrong and distinctive novel that refuses to succumb to the reader’s wish for release.
Anne Merethe K. Prinos, Aftenposten
