Ulysses II av Kristian Klausen (Innbundet)

Ulysses II (Innbundet)

Author:

Kristian Klausen

Norwegian title: Ulysses II
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2026
Pages: 224
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
ISBN/EAN: 9788202895273
Kategori: Literature and Fiction
Overview Ulysses II

The Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani was killed in a bomb attack in Beirut in 1972. Israeli intelligence claimed responsibility; they had placed an explosive device under his car, which detonated when Kanafani turned the key in the ignition.

This novel imagines a universe in which Kanafani escapes, flees to Norway and rents a dormitory with the Alsaker couple in Drammen. Living with them, and wandering around the small town, he gets the idea for an epic novel about his Palestinian people.

Ulysses II is an ambitious literary experiment, which examines what would happen if the Jewish protagonist in James Joyce's Ulysses were rewritten as a Palestinian.

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Author Kristian Klausen

Kristian Klausen (b. 1971) is a freelance writer and art instructor. He made his literary début in 2008 with his critically acclaimed short story collection The meal in Emmaus. In 2014 he was awarded The Norwegian Booksellers grant, and the same year he was also nominated to The NRK P2-listeners Novel Award for the novel My Life was a Hot Library.

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