The Pulsebeat of the Comet
Vallersnes, Eli Sol: Kometpuls
The Pulsebeat of a Comet lends a voice to one of the countless and faceless individuals who make their way to Norway, apply for asylum, are rejected and have to return to where they came from. We are afforded an insight into the mind of a person who has been deeply wounded, a person with a traumatic past and no future.
Haunting and poetic, vivid and penetrating, this book tells a story of paramount importance, and in so doing indirectly criticizes the Norwegian government's policy towards asylum seekers. The book gives a face and human dignity to what is virtually an invisible mass of human beings; and it makes graphic the feelings of a person burdened by an oppressive past yet denied a new homeland and the prospect of a decent life.
First published: 2002, Aschehoug Fiction
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