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Mount Tupelo

Two young men strike gold as writers of television series that astonish the world. In Life a deadly alga is planted on the bottom of the Pacific to save the climate, leaving humanity to deal with the unforeseen consequences. Grunge opens up a universe without limits where the viewers can create the life they have always dreamed about for themselves. The series set a new benchmark for television, causing the border between reality and fiction to start slipping.

The two writers, Alf and Peder, become rich and famous, but their friendship is lost along the way. From a protected and guarded existence in the Norwegian mountains, Alf starts looking closer at the tings around him. Are they real? Can he trust that his surroundings are not manipulated?

MOUNT TUPELO is a novel about seeking transgression and success through creative work, and at the same time about trying to find and grasp something which is real.

Praise for MOUNT TUPELO:

“Again the author has written a novel unlike other novels … Lirhus has … shown will and ability to travel beyond the literary and narratively beaten path.”
(Aftenposten)

“... his gloomy vision of Norway and the world a couple of decades from now is thrilling.”
(Dagsavisen)

“The writing is tight and dynamic, with sentences that know just where they’re going … Many of the scenes sparkle.”
(Dagbladet)

“philosophical and searching … This is Lirhus’ greatest strength: catching the social games, the delicate balance and the silent falls, the nuances and the details that if they are to be given literary form must be described with great ingenuity and few words.”
(Klassekampen)

”A complex and thought-provoking novel with one foot in the past and real life, another in the future and the illusion, or vice versa (...) an original writer"
(Adresseavisen)

First published: 2009, Forlaget Oktober
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