Literature and Fiction · Hardback

The House of Eden

Norwegian title: Edens hus

Marte Qvenild

Miguel and Nora, father and daughter, live in opposite corners of the world, each striving to create Paradise on earth: an Eden. Miguel through political warfare in Mexico, or, revolution, if you prefer. His daughter, through a rainforest project in a greenhouse in Norway.

Nora hasn’t seen or heard from her dad for several decades when she receives a call from her Mexican family. They urge her to come back. Her father needs her. Will she go? Of course she will go. But is she travelling from something, or to something?

The Eden Project is a novel about bullets and seeds.

«Norwegian literature needs people who will raise their gaze. Marte Qvenlid does.»NRK

«The novel's indisputable highlight testifies to an author who knows how to create and pursue an interesting plot – something which, undboubtedly, not many masters.»Klassekampen

«Qvenild writes precisely and soberly, while simultaneously vividly, about everything from the rush of traffic in Carl Berner's place to the subjugation of the Mexican riot police. The immersion in Nora, Astrid, Miguel and their student friends from 1968, Yatzil and Miguel's sneaky brother, Gabriel, forms luminous portraits of rounded-out people. Their personal story provides the seed for constantly new choices, which they also make. The universe that is being written is a frankly brilliant achievement by the second book author Qvenild.»Dag og Tid