The first appearance in English of this finely wrought novel by Holmebakk, which explores the fundamental tensions between life and death that perhaps only love and hope can palliate.
How can we thrive, knowing that death is our reward? In Norwegian author Holmebakk's haunting masterpiece about love and death, fear and faith, God and the loss of innocence, irreversible choices and missed opportunities, he shows how acceptance of the inevitability of death brought hope to one in doubt.
