Literature and Fiction · Hardback

Swoosh!

Norwegian title: Nødutgang til dagen

Morten Langeland

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