Poppel

In Poppel the author both amplifies his further pursues his literary project. With the aid of an intense, sensuous language, he conjures up a universe in which stories and human destinies partly touch upon and partly overlap each other.
Essentially, Poppel is about losing a loved one. Once again we meet Grøndahl's forceful narrator in his quest for an explanation and reconciliation - this time through the medium of three disparate characters, all bearing the same name. There is a hint of the supernatural, of otherworldliness, about them and the lives they lead, but what at the outset appears distant and unreal, soon closes in and becomes recognisable, while the resolute outward bearing of the three gradually crumbles to expose their patent underlying vulnerability.

First published: 2000, Aschehoug Fiction
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