Echoes of the City - The Shadow Book (Innbundet)

Series: Byens spor 3

Author:

Lars Saabye Christensen

Norwegian title: Byens spor - Skyggeboken
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2019
Pages: 544
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
Series: Byens spor
Serienummer: 3
ISBN/EAN: 9788202588762
Overview Byens spor - Skyggeboken

Lars Saabye Christensen has put his ear to the conch of the city and listened to the sound within. With finely tuned sensitivity he listens to every detail. He sees the light casting a shadow one way as the sun is setting over the city that was, and the other way over a city waking up to a new time. Inevitably the question arises: Whom are we who are living in this city, this country and this time - and who will we become?

At the centre of the third part of Echoes of the City we find Maj Kristoffersen. Her destiny is intimately interwoven with Oslo and its streets; but not as much as the people she shares the city with. First and foremost her children Jesper and Stine, as well as her fellow women of the Red Cross, the invisible social backbone of Fagerborg borough. The children are grown up and times are changing. Hopes and dreams are challenged by a world no longer on track. Growing pains affect them all as new doors open and the old ones close.

‘It is gripping, in some passages glittering. And only a reader with a heart of steel could fail to be deeply moved…’
DAGBLADET

‘Lars Saabye Christensen allows himself digressions and diversions in the last novel in his Oslo trilogy Echoes of the City. This sets the three-volume work slightly off-kilter. Just what it takes to make the trilogy necessary. Yes, necessary.’
NRK

‘The author serves up metaphors and images that will make the reader cheer.’
FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

‘The Shadow Book is a very powerful novel, which stays with you for a long time. And yes, it is a bit funny too.’
ADRESSEAVISEN

‘… an emotional roller-coaster’
VG

‘With The Shadow Book, Lars Saabye Christensen has concluded his trilogy in a way that ensures Echoes of the City will stand as a masterpiece in the oeuvre of this soon-to-be 66-year-old Oslo man.’
BOK 365 6/6

‘Echoes of the City is a vast monument to the past and the present day. …it works, the whole thing. Echoes of the City – The Shadow Book is a brilliant conclusion to the trilogy about Oslo and Norway in the decades after the war.’
DAGSAVISEN

‘Lars Saabye Christensen writes warming literature of reminiscence, full of linguistic treats.’
AFTENPOSTEN

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Reviews Byens spor - Skyggeboken

Det aller beste sporet 14.10.2019

«Saabye Christensen er en historieforteller fra den aller øverste hylla (...)»

«Her er det i alle fall svært mye som ikke går over i glemmeboka fordi Saabye Christensen makter å gjøre disse menneskene og historiene så sterke og så viktige.»

«Skyggeboken» - en av de aller beste bøkene jeg noensinne har lest.»

 
Tor Hammerø, Nettavisen

Et menneskelig speil i dødens skygge 02.09.2019

« ... et bevegende mesterverk som samtaler med et stort forfatterskap, med sviket og kjærligheten og med døden.»
(...)
« Skyggeboken, avslutningsbindet i Lars Saabye Christensens trilogi «Byens spor», er ikke bare omfangsrik, original, ambisiøs, mangfoldig. Den er intim og gripende, båret av et eksistensielt alvor, en personlighetens tyngde, som enda engang illustrerer dikterens kunstneriske credo (...)»

 
Steinar Sivertsen, Stavanger Aftenblad

Hvis dette er hans avskjed, vil den sette varige spor 21.08.2019

«Med Skyggeboken har Lars Saabye Christensen fullført sin trilogi på en måte som sikrer at Byens spor vil bli stående som et hovedverk i den snart 66-årige Oslo-mannens forfatterskap.»

 
Leif Gjerstad, Bok365.no

Saabye på sitt sterkeste 21.08.2019

«Skyggeboken er en meget sterk roman, som henger i lenge. Og ja, den er litt morsom også.»

 
Ole Jacob Hoel, Adressavisen

Stor avslutning på stort forfatterskap 21.08.2019

«Forfatteren serverer metaforer og bilder som får leseren til å juble.»

 
Emil Otto Syvertsen, Fædrelandsvennen

Et høydepunkt i forfatterskapet! 21.08.2019

«... en emosjonell berg-og dalbane å lese - og en engasjerende og tett befolket avslutning på en trilogi som vil bli stående som et høydepunkt i forfatterskapet.»

 
Sindre Hovdenakk, VG

Til tider glitrende 21.08.2019

«Det er gripende, i passasjer glitrende. Og du skal ha et lesehjerte av stål for ikke å bli dypt beveget ...»

 
Cathrine Krøger, Dagbladet

Strålende avslutning 30.08.2019

«Lars Saabye Christensens innblanding i egen roman gjer sterkt inntrykk. [...] Begeistringa mi handlar elles om den tidskolorittmetta handlinga, og om personane Christensen nok ein gong gjer levande for meg. Det handlar om klassiske, vakre Christensen-formuleringar [...]»

Ingvild Bræin, Dag og Tid

Sterk avslutning på Byens spor 22.08.2019

«Lars Saabye Christensen tillet seg både sidespor og sidesprang i siste roman av Oslo-trilogien Byens spor. Dette dyttar trebindsverket litt ut av vater. Akkurat det som skulle til for å gjere trilogien nødvendig.

Ja, nødvendig.»

Marta Norheim, NRK

Saabye setter varige spor 21.08.2019

«Byens spor er et monumentalt minnesmerke over fortid og samtid.»

«Det fungerer, alt sammen. Byens spor – Skyggeboken er en strålende avslutning på trilogien om Oslo og Norge i tiårene etter krigen.»

Gerd Elin Stava Sandve, Dagsavisen

Full pakke for fansen 21.08.2019

«Lars Saabye Christensen lager varmende mimrelitteratur, med mange språklige godbiter.»

Mari Grydeland, Aftenposten

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Author Lars Saabye Christensen

Lars Saabye Christensen (b. 1953) is one of Norway’s most beloved and prolific authors. Despite being best known for his long novels, Saabye is also a poet. His debut book was the poetry collection History of Gly (1976), for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas prize. His first novel, The Amateur, was published in 1977 and Saabye Christensen often says all his novels could’ve had this title. Humans who struggle with inner insecurities and lack of a directory of their own lives, who are not professionally well-prepared in all of life’s situations, but instead make wrong choices and appear clumsy – these are the people he has an ever-recurring love for in his books.

His big breakthrough novel was Beatles (1984), which is one of the biggest selling literary titles in Norway ever and which new generations of youth keep falling in love with. In 2001 his epic major work The Half Brother was published, an extraordinarily generous and moving novel, which follows a family over a period of many years and through all stages of life. The Half Brother became an international success and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Between 2017 and 2021 the series Echoes of the City was published, which was met with exceptional criticism and reached a large readership. Saabye Christensen has written over 70 titles, won numerous prizes and awards, and has been translated into 36 languages.

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