Fifty/Fifty
Fº / Morten Langeland
Norwegian title: | Nødutgang til dagen |
Author: | Morten Langeland |
Binding: | Innbundet |
Year: | 2024 |
Pages: | 272 |
Publisher: | Flamme Forlag |
Språk: | Bokmål |
Series: | Fº |
Serienummer: | 539 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9788282885829 |
Kategori: | Literature and Fiction |
In November 1996, the workers of coalmine 3 at Svalbard were told that operations were being suspended. The workers put down their tools and left the mine in the middle of their shift. Trygve became an unemployed sole provider for his daughter, Mariane.
For years, Mariane has lived a successful and hectic life as a trend analyst. The international lifestyle brands have sky-high expectations, which Mariane rarely fails to exceed. But when a pitch meeting for Nike suddenly goes awry, Mariane opts for a self-imposed break. As she attempts to analyze her new situation while licking her wounds, an important phone call knocks her further out of balance.
From multinational negotiations on the 27th floor in Tokyo office buildings, to hard manual labor in Coal Mine 3 on Svalbard: Swoosh! is a journey between generations, towards a new understanding of one’s own identity.
Praise for Swoosh!
Existentially curious about parenthood and identity
"Through Mariane and Trygve, the novel explores the enormous social changed that have happened over just two measly generations, with the parallel, disquieting changes of our planet as its framework. (…) an existentially curious exploration of estrangement and love across two generations, in a rapidly changing world."
MORGENBLADET
Praise for Morten Langeland
Masterly by Morten Langeland
After 260 pages of dense and intense text with the unmistakable tinge of Morten Langeland’s playful approach to language and matter, and with several narrative threads weaved together sort of like a complicated fugue by Bach, I’m not only convinced of the novel’s greatness. I’m equally moved, touched and happy to have partaken in this work of art. This book will stay with me for a long time.
FÆDRELANDSVENNEN
Between spiritus and spiritus mundi
Morten Langeland writes contemporary-cultural look-and-find-books one definitely shouldn’t miss. (…) With his publications these last four years, Morten Langeland has become a completely unique and very significant writer.
MORGENBLADET
Fº / Morten Langeland
Fº / Morten Langeland
Fº / Morten Langeland
«Gjennom Mariane og Trygve undersøker romanen de enorme sosiale endringene som har funnet sted på tvers av to skarve generasjoner, med klodens parallelle, uhyggelige forandringer som ramme. (...) At han lykkes med å skape en fornemmelse av verdens tekstur i romanen, skal Langeland da også ha ros for. (...) en eksistensielt nysgjerrig undersøkelse av fremmedgjøring og kjærlighet på tvers av to generasjoner, i en verden som endrer seg rasende fort.»
Anna Serafima Svendsen Kvam, Morgenbladet«Nødutgang til dagen er poetisk, dyp og detaljrik. (...) Langeland leker med språk og metaforer for å skildre en far-datter-relasjon som på fabelaktig vis symboliserer utviklingen av Norge og verden de siste tiårene. Forfatteren makter å troverdig beskrive det helt nære, og sette det i sammenheng med det planetære. Vi glemmer ikke denne fortellingen med det første.»
Fra juryens begrunnelse, Subjektprisen Årets litteratur 2024