Teori og praksis

Billed as a lying autobiography, this almost-true novel tells of growing up in Rykkinn, a satellite town in Bærum outside Oslo. In 1972 young Nikolaj, the son of an architect, moves there with his family, into a suburb his father had imagined as a paradise in theory. The story takes in the hopes and losses of the cultural radicals, the energetic and aimless revolt of punk, drink and drugs and madness, and the way ordinary life itself can bring on crisis, and at its core lies an unusual relationship between father and son. It also pushes past realism, testing the border between fiction and fact and asking whether one can write truthfully about one’s own life for long, or whether the lie is, in the end, the truest thing.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

288 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway, from 1972

First published

2004 by Gyldendal

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9788205332140 (original)

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