Penelope er syk

Thereses gate is an Oslo street like many others, with tenements from around 1900, trams rattling down to the centre or up to Adamstuen, and rain spraying from passing cars. In one of the flats live a writer and his wife. She is ill, seriously ill, and he has set out for the sushi place at Adamstuen to buy something that might tempt her appetite. But the way is full of interruptions: the Oslo Cyclops tries to stop him, someone calls invitingly from a balcony, acquaintances and colleagues are out walking or jogging. While he keeps thinking of his wife, his gaze is pulled in every direction, and a short errand becomes a seemingly endless odyssey while Penelope waits at home.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

206 pages in the original

Set in

Norway

First published

2017 by Gyldendal

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9788205504400 (original)