Unspeakable Events

A young woman returns to her childhood island in the north of Norway, fifteen years after her father killed her mother and himself. She wants to come to terms with why this tragedy took place, but she also discovers that her homecoming stirs up memories from the past. The border between the past and the present, between her mother and herself, is gradually erased. The woman feels her mother’s desperation; she feels her father’s rage. She also discovers that her mother had a lover on the opposite coast of the island and she empathises with her passion. Or does she feel her own?

First published: 2006, Aschehoug fiction

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