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Echoes of the City : Maj and Ewald / Lars Saabye Christensen ; Traslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. - Wydanie 3. - London : MacLehose Press An imprint of Quercus Publishing Ltd., 2022. - 459 stron ; 20 cm.

(Echoes of the City / Lars Saabye Christensen ; 1)

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Christensen, Lars Saabye (1953- ). Autor Bartlett, Don. Tłumaczenie Christensen, Lars Saabye (1953- ). Echoes of the City (ang.)

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Literatura norweska

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Międzynarodowy Komitet Czerwonego Krzyża Chłopcy Inność Słuch Rodzina Miasta Oslo (Norwegia)

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Tytuł oryginału cyklu: Byens Spor, 2017.

At the centre of the novel are Maj and Ewald Kristoffersen and their son Jesper, their lives closely entwined and overlapping with their neighbours’ on Kirkeveien. When the butcher’s son Jostein is knocked down in a traffic accident and loses his hearing, Jesper promises to be his ears in the world. The arrival of a long-awaited telephone is a major event for Maj and Ewald, and meanwhile their neighbour, recently widowed Fru Vik, tentatively takes up with the owner of the bookshop near the cemetery. The bar at Hotel Bristol becomes a meeting place for all of them - for Ewald and his advertising colleagues, for Fru Vik and her suitor, to the piano playing of hapless Enzo Zanetti, an immigrant down on his luck, who enables Jesper to discover his true passion. The minutes of the local Red Cross meetings give an architecture to the narrative of so many lives and tell a story in themselves, bearing witness to the steady recovery of the community. Echoes of the City is a remarkably tender observation of the rhythms and passions of a city, and a particular salute to the resilience of its women.

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Friendship / Lars Saabye Christensen ; Traslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. - Wydanie 2. - London : MacLehose Press An imprint of Quercus Publishing Ltd., 2021. - 460, [1] strona ; 22 cm.

(Echoes of the City / Lars Saabye Christensen ; 2)

Author

Christensen, Lars Saabye (1953- ). Autor Bartlett, Don. Tłumaczenie Christensen, Lars Saabye (1953- ). Echoes of the City (ang.)

Form of Work

Książki Proza

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Literatura norweska

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Międzynarodowy Komitet Czerwonego Krzyża Kobieta Relacje międzyludzkie Wybory życiowe Przyjażń Miasta Oslo (Norwegia)

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Tytuł oryginału cyklu: Byens Spor : Maj.

Part Two of the Echoes of the City series, set in post-war Oslo, by an author who understands the city like no other. In Kirkeveien, Oslo, in the year 1956, forty-year-old Maj is worn down by being a homemaker and widowed mother. To the indignation of the Red Cross ladies, she cautiously frees herself from the role she has otherwise fulfilled to the letter. She finds a job that she turns out to be more than good at, and some kind of love, too. Her friend Margrethe is sick of her marriage to the antiquarian bookseller, Olaf Hall, but cannot think of divorce. Jesper gets a girlfriend who opens the door to a new, more liberated environment of vegetarianism and politics. And his best friend Jostein realises that his talent for making money will allow him access to a world that is larger and richer than that of the Oslo slaughterhouse. Friendship is a beautifully orchestrated story about people and their dreams, about social conventions, personal constraints and what it takes to have the courage to realise oneself. In this book brimming with human insight, as in Echoes of the City, in each of these characters we recognise something of ourselves

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Dembowskiego 12 (W131)

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