Maud og Aud

Maud and Aud are sitting in the back seat when the driver loses control and their mother, Ruth, is killed against a mountainside in a single second. From that accident the novel looks at what traffic does to our lives: the newlyweds’ joyride through the streets, children shrieking in the bumper cars, the engineer satisfied with a perfectly built road, the moment a life snaps. Chance shapes each fate, and one person’s disaster becomes another’s luck. Essay-like passages deal with oil, organ donation and traffic surveillance. Almost thirty years later a black Mercedes begins to menace peaceful motorists, and eighteen-year-old Lovall sets out to find out who, or what, is behind the wheel.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

209 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway

First published

2011 by Forlaget Oktober

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9788249508648 (original)

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