Om tingenes natur

The narrator lives at the subsistence level. The electricity in the condemned house she rents at the edge of the forest is cut off, mice run across the attic floor and the water in the pipes is brown. To get by she cleans other people's houses, letting herself into empty flats and polishing surfaces, a job she has always thought of as temporary but which has settled into a rhythm. She has agreed to write an essay on literary rooms for a magazine, but cannot get started as her body stiffens from the cleaning. She thinks of places she has lived, her grandmother's home in Bergen and a commune in Berlin, of homelessness that has become a habit, and of an old love she tries to dissect.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

250 pages in the original

First published

2025 by Forlaget Oktober

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9788249530496 (original)