Waking Nights
Malm, Anders: VåkenetterA man walking home from a party gets literally tangled up in his own memory threads. A young couple sits in a car under water, and one of them has never been happier. A son gets a phone call from his dead mother. And a volcanologist refuses to evacuate a mountain he knows will explode any moment.
In WAKING NIGHTS the everyday becomes extreme and the extreme everyday. Anders Malm seeks out the margins of the human psyche and the borderline situations of existence. This is “literature noir”, but not without absurd elements and human warmth.
Praise for WAKING NIGHTS:
“Malm writes beautifully about this half-lit landscape between night and day […] where strange, inexplicable things happen.”
(Dagbladet)
“a debut which really surprises and impresses … In his own way he succeeds in creating realities which might seem twisted and strange, peopled by down and out individuals, but always with a solid dose of human warmth at heart.”
(Hamar Arbeiderblad)
First published: 2009, Aschehoug
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