Magnet

A love story about a mismatched couple who try with all their might to pull in the same direction. Jokum and Synne meet at Sogn student village in Oslo in the 1970s, and the novel follows them over several decades. Jokum is a photographer who wants to show the beauty and melancholy of things; Synne is an art historian who specialises in Edward Hopper. They marry in San Francisco and begin to rise in the art world. Jokum puts his life in Synne’s hands and she becomes his curator, but working on the pictures brings them too close. Time, art and the limits of intimacy are at its heart.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Novel

Length

779 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway, United States, 1970s onwards

First published

2015 by Cappelen Damm

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9788202492748 (original)