Tesman

Tesman is the last book in Kjetil Bjørnstads thematic trilogy. Fall was about a murderer, Ludvig Hassels tusenårsskifte featured a murder victim, and this year's book centres on a suicide.
For some inexplicable reason Susanne, a psychiatrist - a competent, popular and much-sought-after person - elects to take her own life. Her doting husband Tesman, a high-profile psychologist, sets out to find the reason by reviewing the course of their twenty-five-year-long marriage. Was it problems connected with her relationship with him that prompted Susanne to end her life? Or could it have been her profession, her having to counsel and encourage an endless succession of dejected and despairing patients? And could he, Tesman, have stopped her when she left him that last, fateful night?
This is a powerful novel that pitches the reader headlong into the troubled mind of a man in turmoil.

Praise for Tesman:

"The story has a drive and a point, and the most outstanding characters...are just the right amount of detestable and credible so that one finds it enjoyable to read about them"
(Dagens Næringsliv)

Languages: Danish

First published: 2003, Aschehoug Fiction

Ketil Bjørnstad: Biography and bibliography

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