Between them, so dangerous that the authorities only permit it to be crossed by train, is the slowly creeping frontier known as Dusk. Elsewhere in Norway, almost two thousand kilometres further north, the mountains surrounding Tromsø combine with its latitude to create two months a year of constant polar night.ĭayzone and Nocturna, the twinned cities of Jeff Noon’s A Man of Shadows, push the situations of Rjukan and Tromsø to searing and sunless extremes: while Dayzone is kept in permanent sunlight by a system of artificial lamps, blazing globes and neon tubes rigged for miles across the entire sky, Nocturna is shielded utterly from sunlight by barriers that keep it in permanent darkness, studded with fixed constellations of electric stars. The small town in Telemark, crammed on to the narrow floor of a deep valley, installed giant heliostatic mirrors high on the mountainside in 2013 to reflect direct sunlight into the town square. For six months of the year in Rjukan, citizens only feel the sun through mirrors.
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With his literary pursuit of the unconscious life of the mind, of “the meanderings of thoughts and feelings in the blue”, he was to achieve recognition as one of the first great modernists in European literary history. The landscape and environment in Nordland became the source of many of his stories.īut Hamsun was a vagabond on earth. Hamsun left Nordland when he was 20 but returned to Hamarøy as an established author, living at Skogheim farm from 1911 to 1917 with his wife Marie and their children. Hamarøy became Hamsun’s childhood realm: here he grew up, and here the feeling of home took root – patriotism on a small scale. Three years later the family moved to Hamarøy in Nordland. Knut Hamsun was born as Knud Pedersen in the Gudbrandsdalen district of Norway on 4 August 1859. Both men worked together as Texas Rangers, north of the Mexican border before retiring to run the Hat Creek Cattle Company. 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With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.Īs Joe writes about Carl's life, especially Carl's valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. Please call your local branch to reserve this title for your club.īag Contents: 10 copies + 1 large print + 1 audiobook SummaryĬollege student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at. Have a question for Dan? 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