Summary
Merethe Lindstrom: The Stone Collectors
The novel begins with the departure of two old-timers from Oslo on a long-planned car trip to other parts of Norway. Hammer is a retired university professor, and Dagmar has been his personal secretary for forty years. At the very beginning of the journey, troubles begin as hints of the misfortune that will happen at the end of the journey. With a carefully worked-out story told alternately by both characters from their own viewpoints, we go back far into the past. Their lives from childhood to the moment of the journey are fatefully intertwined with the lives of many other characters. But all these people appear and disappear from their lives, but the two of them still remain together, bound by bonds of duty, respect and loyalty. With a polished style and skilfully conducted plot, the author builds a novel full of inner dramatic tension, which takes place mostly in the unsaid, intuited, hidden. This is the second translated novel by one of the most important contemporary Norwegian writers.
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