| International Standard Book Number |
9781643757452 (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1643757458 (paperback)
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| Personal Name |
Grytten, Frode, 1960- author.
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| Uniform Title |
Den dagen Nils Vik dode. English
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| Title Statement |
The ferryman and his wife / Frode Grytten ; translated from Norwegian by Alison McCullough.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
166 pages ; 21 cm.
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| General Note |
"Originally published in 2023 in Norway as 'Den dagen Nils Vik dode' by Forlaget Oktober"--Title page verso.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mind, and looks around the empty house one last time, before stepping onto his beloved boat. His dog, dead these many years, leaps aboard with him, and then the other dead begin to emerge -- from the woods along the fjord, from each of the ferry stops along the route, from his logbook full of memories and quotations and jotted-down notes about the weather conditions. The people from the past accompany him now, prodding him, showing him what he might have missed before, as he waits for his Marta, his late, remarkable wife, to finally join him on the boat again"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Language note |
Translated from the Norwegian.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Memory Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Terminally ill Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spirits Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Life Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Ferries Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Ferryboat captains Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Norway Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
McCullough, Alison, translator.
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