AshehougAgency

Orkanger

We all play roles in each others’ lives.Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small. Sometimes they are decisive. Orkanger is a novel about bullying, revenge and a lifelong fellowship of fate. Børge and Terje, bully and victim. From both sides the same events are experienced, and the power relations between them shift from childhood through adulthood to old age. For what is the greatest sin – to do someone wrong or to avenge wrongdoing?

Orkanger is a convincing sequel to the author’s debut novel Terminal Velocity.

Praise for Orkanger:

"The debut novel, Terminal Velocity, was very promising and Orkanger shows us that we are dealing with a poet (…) En small, great novel about guild, revenger, regret and personal intergrity”
(Fædrelandsvennen)

"... a piece of art … This is gripping, containing true psychological realism and equal amounts of dramatic drive and technical prose, in a modern narrative style”
(Stavanger Aftenblad)

"The book is well told in great prose, Mjønes is a linguistic talent … He lives up to the expectations he created with his debut novel”
(Adresseavisen)

"Mjønes honours every expectation … Mjønes has a visual narrative style, and his lingustics bring his readers unusually close”
(Moss Avis)

First published: 2010, Aschehoug Fiction
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