Trilogy

Alida and Asle have come to Bjørgvin to look for work and somewhere to live. Alida is close to giving birth, yet no one will take the young couple in, and they walk the streets in the rain, more and more dispirited. They carry memories of a happier time, when they first met and knew at once that they belonged together, but darker memories mix in too, and the echo of the Bible story sounds all the way through. It is an ambiguous tale, lovely and sad, that turns into an uncanny legend: a luminous portrait of young love in a tight, singular form where everything is simple and grand at once.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

74 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway

First published

2007 by Samlaget

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9788252170566 (original)

9781628971392 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)

9781628973907 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)

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