Minor Characters

Tiller, Carl Frode: Bipersonar

Following his much-talked-about and award-winning first novel The Slope, Carl Frode Tiller is back with a book that both reaffirms and strengthens his status as a notable up-and-coming author.

In Minor Characters we meet people whose lives intertwine, but who each inhabit their own, closed world. Kjell takes off when his father, Thomas, meets a new woman. Thomas' brother is trapped between two dominating women, and Kjell's half-brother lives a shady life on the edge of the law. Finally, we make the acquaintance of Arnt, a writer, who one evening is visited by Thomas, one of the minor characters in the book he is writing...

Minor Characters is about what it takes to empathize with other people's worlds and realities. We follow the intricate threads of a tapestry woven by the characters’ lives.

"This is a novel so original in style, language and composition that it's easy to let oneself be seduced"
(Dagbladet)

Carl Frode Tiller: Biography and bibliography

First published: 2003, Aschehoug Fiction

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Danish Athene

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