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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.
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Bergeners, Tomas Espedal, James Anderson
- Language
- Released
- 2017
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- Book condition
- Very Good
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- €9.49
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- Title
- Bergeners
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tomas Espedal, James Anderson
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 169
- ISBN10
- 0857424424
- ISBN13
- 9780857424426
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Poetry, Contemporary Fiction, Pedagogy, Biographies, Education & School System, Europe, Literary Criticism, Travelling, Scandinavian Literature, 21st Century, Western Europe, Norway, Nordic Countries
- Description
- 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.