Grand Manila

The novel starts from five families living in Sauda in the 1950s and writes its way outward from there, into the wider world and down the generations. It travels back to the Finnish civil war, on through the Kanawha valley in West Virginia and to Bhopal in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, across the whole of Norway’s post-war era and over Ekeberg in Oslo, before coming back to a café in Sauda, and finally ending, as all things seem to end, in a terraced house on the edge of a town.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

410 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway, Finland, United States, India, 1950s and after

First published

2006 by Gyldendal

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9788205359246 (original)

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