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Guilty of crimes he does not fully understand, a young man sits in a psychiatric ward on the eve of his father’s funeral. He cannot talk about what troubles him, but he can write, and his psychologist has him put his own story on paper. Childhood memories force their way in as he does: a boyhood of coldness, helplessness and isolation that has made him, in the eyes of others, a monster. Yet his frantic attempts to make sense of things reveal a sensitive, desperate person, and the novel keeps circling back to sorrow for everything that might have turned out otherwise.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

271 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway

First published

2001 by Aschehoug

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9788203184512 (original)

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