A Ghost Story
By Geir Pollen
The narrator in A Ghost Story , a paper engineer who has taken early retirement, does not re-visit his own past – he is haunted by it. The scenario is a night train between St…
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The narrator in A Ghost Story, a paper engineer who has taken early retirement, does not re-visit his own past – he is haunted by it. The scenario is a night train between St Petersburg and Moscow. From this point the narrative spreads out into the great world outside: a whole life summed up in just over a hundred small pages of a novel.
«Geir Pollen is an eloquent feinscmecker in Norwegian contemporary literature.»Dag og Tid
«Reading Geir Pollen can in fact make you lose sleep ... In less than 150 pages he creates a suggestive, but pregnant story about isolation and withdrawal, about fear of life as much as of death. This gives many good, existential chills.»Aftenposten
****** (6 out of 6 stars), Stavanger Aftenblad
***** (5 out of 6 stars), Trønder-Avisa
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Publication year2016
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