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Hannu, Hannu

- Let's turn around, I said
- I’m continuing on, Hannu answers.
- Then I will turn around alone, I said.

And so, I went. I turned around and felt my way, I started to crawl in a darkness which was so dark, I could not know if it was me who was there. After a while I stopped and called for my brother. My voice disappeared into the mountain. It barley managed to return to me, and I never got any other reply.

Hannu, Hannu is a gripping story about two brothers, a darkness and a summer that changes everything.

One of Norway's most respected poets, Gulliksen has written books in many genres. Hannu, Hannu is his second book for children and young adults.

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Praise for Hannu, Hannu:

"In Norway and Sweden, writers frequently succeed where their Dutch high-level colleagues seem to fail: in making art for children in a seemingly casual way. A prime example is the lyrical story Hannu, Hannu by Norwegian author Geir Gulliksen … [a] breathtaking enlargement of the classic, universally recognizable childhood fear of the big, black forest."
(Volkskrant, Holland)

"… it has to be one of the wisest and most beautiful books to be published last year … There is something mythical about this story, it is independent from time and place. I got some of the same feeling as when I read Tarjei Vesaas’ The Ice Castle. The language is simple and poetic; it is a thought-evoking and beautiful text which almost rises above the borders of language. It is a book which calls upon many thoughts and which stays with you for a long time after you have finished reading it"
(Bok og Samfunn)

First published: 2006, Aschehoug Children & Young Adults
Geir Gulliksen: Bibliography and biography

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