Lannan Translation Selection (Graywolf Hardcover): Before I Burn (Hardcover)

from japaul22

This is a Norwegian bestseller in which the narrator ruminates about an arsonist who terrorized his community at the time of his birth. He also thinks extensively about his relationship with his father and his father's death. This book definitely has that Scandinavian feel - it is written a bit f...

from icolford

Gaute Heivoll's enormously satisfying novel/memoir, Before I Burn, recounts a period from the spring of 1978, when the people of Finsland, a remote, sparsely populated region in southern Norway, were terrorized by a series of deliberately set fires that destroyed homes and ruined lives. Heivoll's...

from ozzer

In this wonderful novel, Gaute Heivoll tells the tale of a series of arsons that took place in Norway in 1978 while also reminiscing about his own evolution as a writer growing up in the same locale. Apart from the locale, the two stories have other appealing synchronicities. Heivoll was born at ...

from ozzer

In this wonderful novel, Gaute Heivoll tells the tale of a series of arsons that took place in Norway in 1978 while also reminiscing about his own evolution as a writer growing up in the same locale. Apart from the locale, the two stories have other appealing synchronicities. Heivoll was born at ...