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Transit

A young woman moves back home to Oslo after ending an intense love affair in Paris, where she has lived for the past years. Having found out that not only was her lover Simon married and had a child, he was also expecting child number two, she quit her job and decided to forget about him. She tries to settle down in Norway, and reconnect with her mother and sister. Then one day, Simon calls and says he wants to visit.

The love affair with Simon is described with both great sensitivity and a surprising lightness, though a growing uneasiness gradually seeps through. Transit is a novel about belonging and feelings of restlessness, about change and transition, about the longing for somewhere else and the longing for home, and about looking for oneself in the other person.

Praise for TRANSIT:

"A promising debut … Katrine Nedrejord has given voice to a wise, young woman, vigorous and intellectually gifted … The family relations are marked by the author’s strong observational skills and the subtle way in which she lends small human details a greater symbolic power … The writing flows easily and unstrained"
(Bergens Tidende)

”A confident first novel, a solid piece of work … elegant”
(Aftenposten)

“A promising debut … The love story between the narrator and the older man is beautifully and sensitively portrayed, without grand words or gestures … A literary talent”
(Tønsbergs Blad)

“A good debut … a nuanced and thoughtful novel of existential pain”
(Dag og tid)

”Young début with a great talent for language … So confident and precise that after only a few pages one finds that one is interested to see where she’ll go … Nedrejord places the drama of the threesome in a vice and twists it 57 times”
(Morgenbladet)

Intense on desperate longing … The processing of heart-brake is central in Kathrine Nedrejord’s début novel, and she writes wisely of That Which Is Most Painful … The author’s view on everyday details is sharp and beautifully portrayed”
(Klassekampen)

First published: 2010, Forlaget Oktober
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