According to the Sea (Innbundet)

Series:  297

Author:

Lasse Wardenær Fosshaug

Norwegian title: Alt etter havet
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2017
Pages: 168
Publisher: Flamme Forlag
Språk: Bokmål
Series:
Serienummer: 297
ISBN/EAN: 9788282881906
Overview Alt etter havet

With his debut novel Over the Bridge (Over brua) from 2013, Lasse W. Fosshaug showed that he masters the classic worker's novel. In his second book, Fosshaug takes the proletariat with him into the dystopia.

According to the Sea (Alt etter havet) takes place on two levels: We meet the protagonist Ivan Ivanovitch as he arrives in our era after a journey through time from a relatively close future. He quickly finds lodgings in a hotel in town, and work in the local aluminum factory. Everything is going according to plan. And while life goes along as usual in the little village, with payday beers on Fridays at the Chinese restaurant, downsizing at the factory and football matches on TV, the reader gets to know more about Ivan's life before he ended up in a village in Norway – and you start to sense what direction the world as we know it is going in.

This is a book about the little people in the big story. About the individual's role in space and time. The book reads as a thriller, with an innovative mix of worker's novel and dystopian sci-fi, and the reader is challenged to reflect on the role technology plays in our lives.

"Lasse W. Fosshaug has written a novel that manages to entertain, and at the same time take its reader dead seriously."
MORGENBLADET

"Relevant Science Fiction has often been used to comment the present. Fosshaug does this, and he does it well. (...) A novel that at its best almost erases the border between fantasy and realism."
NRK

"In Lasse W. Fosshaugs novel the end of civilisation is in the making (...) It is the way he paints the picture of the riun of civilization that make the story glow, with a matt, grimy shine of almost existential melancholy."
KLASSEKAMPEN

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Reviews Alt etter havet

"en like grafisk grusom som stilistisk stålkontrollert fortelling"

 
Jan Askelund, Stavanger Aftenblad

"Uten problemer ser jeg for meg fortellingen om den ufrivillige russiske homoaktivisten som må avverge katastrofe på så spektakulært vis, flyttet til det store lerretet. Og her er det Fosshaug faktisk imponerer mest. Uten den typen tunglabbede frempek som spenningslitteratur ofte gjør bruk av, og med solide strekk av langt mer nøktern handling, er dette en roman som underholder samtidig som den tar sin leser, og sitt verdensskapende arbeid, på fullt alvor."

Bernhard Ellefsen, Morgenbladet

"Relevant science fiction har ofte vært brukt til å kommentere samtiden, Fosshaug gjør det og lykkes godt. (...) en roman som på sitt beste nesten klarer å viske ut overgangen mellom fantasi og realisme."

Leif Ekle, NRK.no

"I Lasse W. Fosshaugs roman er sivilisasjonens undergang i støpeskjeen. (...) ...det er i utpenslingen av sivilisasjonsruinen fortellingen gløder, med en matt, tilsotet glans av nærmest eksistensiell melankoli."

Bjørn Ivar Fyksen, Klassekampen

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Author Lasse Wardenær Fosshaug

Lasse W. Fosshaug (1982–) is a critically acclaimed author, well known for his original style and fluent writing. His first novel, Over Brua (2013) was nominated for the Debutant Prize by the bookseller Norli. Fosshaug's second novel, Alt etter havet (2017), was equally well received in Norwegian media. All the reviews can be found on his website, lassefosshaug.no.

In addition to his Bachelor's Degree in journalism, Fosshaug has studied creative writing at the famous literary writing school, Litterär Gestaltning in Gothenburg, Sweden. After many years working in communications, marketing and PR, he is now writing full time.

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