128 pages
1. edition
Norwegian
ISBN/EAN: 9788205410404
Give Me a Sword
Gunnar Bjørnå Høgstmyr
They want something else. One year later, a number of prominent, Norwegian public figures are executed by an unknown terrorist organization. Eighteen year old Anette has fled to The Netherlands, where someone cuts off one of her ears in a dark apartment. In a confined psychiatric ward one of the patients is encouraged by her psychiatrist to break out. Somewhere else a young woman is comatized, her shoulder is tattooed with a quote from a Persian missionary.
Give Me a Sword is a contemporary dystopia set in Norway, a fragmented tale of brainwashing, brutality and alienation – and about the feeling of having been conned all your life.
Critics’ Quotes:
"A style of writing characterized by less-is-more, a fundamentally inquisitive attitude and fertile shifts of perspective are the most important guarantees that we will hear more from this new writer."
Bergens Tidende
"The feeling of unease and disgust sticks to the reader. That turns the novel into aquavit. It is impossible not to take a sip, and then to spit it out again, only to take a new sip and discover that you like it."
Universitas
