Nordaustpassasjen

During the Spanish Civil War, as democracy loses ground, two small boys are evacuated from the losing side at the last minute. One lands in the Soviet Union, the other in Mexico: the same start, two different lives. One road leads through Russia to Siberia and down the Yenisei to Norilsk on the edge of the Arctic Ocean; the other among Mexico’s snow-capped volcanoes. Where are they two lifetimes later, who is the narrator, and what does he know about the world we will wake up to tomorrow? Spread over several continents and reaching into the near future, it is a story of routes through new waters as the ice melts and the ideological climate shifts.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

424 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Spain, Russia, Mexico, 1930s to the near future

First published

2012 by Gyldendal

Author's age

68 when first published

ISBN

9788205429260 (original)