Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest

Fanny is a young girl whose parents have died, and she tries to live as best she can on her own in a small village. Her days go on simple chores: getting to school, repairing the gutter, chopping wood, keeping the weeds down. When she thinks of how her parents died, she feels strangely composed, and when she sees them in dreams it is as if the old ghost story were turned around and she, the living one, haunts the dead. Beneath these sorrowful conditions lies adventure, full of stubborn notions and possibilities, and her peculiar way of meeting the world turns a simple story into a parable of friendship, independence and transcendence.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

212 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway

First published

2017 by Forlaget Oktober

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9788249518388 (original)

9781771665186 (Book*hug Press, Canada)