Gens de Bergen (ROMANS, NOUVELL)

By Tomas Espedal

Bergeners is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer Hof, a hotel that has seen better days. But between these two global metropolises we find Bergen, Norway--its streets and buildings and the people who walk those streets and live in those buildings.

Using James Joyce's Dubliners as a discrete guide, celebrated Norwegian writer Tomas Espedal wanders the streets of his hometown. On the journey, he takes notes, reflects, writes a diary, and draws portraits of the city and its inhabitants. Espedal writes tales and short stories, meets fellow writers, and listens to their anecdotes. In a way that anyone from a small town can relate to, he is drawn away from Bergen but at the same time he can't seem to stay away. Espedal's Bergeners is a book not just about Bergen, but about life--in a way no one else could have captured.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857424424
• ISBN13: 9780857424426
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"