Brødrene Henriksen

The novel opens with a childhood memory. Their father and mother are celebrating their wedding anniversary with a balloon ride high above Oslo, and on that day the brothers Ben and Axel see an accident so strange it hardly seems real. They carry the memory with them ever after, and it leaves them dependent on each other in a way that becomes difficult in adult life. Ben upholsters furniture in his father’s workshop; Axel lays roofs until he starts writing for the theatre, and both are pulled into that world, where one of them succeeds and the other fails. Can a person be so well cared for by someone else that he forgets to follow his own wishes for a good life? Around the brothers move many crooked side characters, drawn with humour and melancholy.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

242 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway

First published

2000 by Gyldendal

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9788205267947 (original)