Homes en la meva situació

Arvid Jansen has a father and mother, three brothers and three daughters of the woman he has lived with since he was nineteen. With a claw of life, they all disappear: some aboard a ferry, others in a shipwreck called separation. He stands, exposed like a stem in the wind. Rooted and determined to be a part of what comes and goes through the streets of Oslo, bars and trams, day and night. The living people we don't know, with whom a collision with a steering wheel makes us collide. The dead people who populate the landscape. The people, few, who we take care of, and who burden us. From these collisions of people where misunderstanding and magic come from, Per Petterson has made the subject of a work. Arvid Jansen stars in three novels. The other characters enter and leave through the eleven doors of their books, read in about fifty languages, a literary cathedral, made with the foam of the days.