Literature and Fiction · Hardback

Bernard comes knocking

Norwegian title: Bernard banker på

Ellen Mari Thelle

– Is it dead now? I whisper. I hunch down. – I think it is dead, you answer and bend over. I put the newspaper over it, pushing it slightly. – It is dead. I lift the bird, carrying it over to the garbage room. You follow, holding the door for me. I throw the dunlin in one of the grey binges. – Coffee? I ask, as I leave the room. Bernhard Comes Knocking is a novel about hoping and waiting. About it never being to late. And that it suddenly might be to late after all.