Beskrivelse
Et psykologisk drama som utspilles omkring en tilsynelatende grå og anonym trikkekonduktør. Magnus Mort er 33 år og har 10 års trofast tjeneste som billettselger bak seg. Han har utviklet et sinnrikt system for å skaffe seg oversikt og overtak over livet sitt: han selger brukte billetter.
En dag smyger bankkasserer Agnes Spillet seg inn i den ordnede tilværelsen hans og finner ut at hun gjerne vil bli. Trikkefører og mosjonsløper Harald Rank er nysgjerrig tilskuer før han også trekkes inn. Tre mennesker ensomme vanespor pensles nå langsomt over i hverandre, og her er beretningen om hva som skjer når slike spor kommer hverandre for nær.
Lars Saabye Christensen
Lars Saabye Christensen (b. 1953) is one of Norway’s most beloved and prolific authors. Despite being best known for his long novels, Saabye is also a poet. His debut book was the poetry collection History of Gly (1976), for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas prize. His first novel, The Amateur, was published in 1977 and Saabye Christensen often says all his novels could’ve had this title. Humans who struggle with inner insecurities and lack of a directory of their own lives, who are not professionally well-prepared in all of life’s situations, but instead make wrong choices and appear clumsy – these are the people he has an ever-recurring love for in his books.
His big breakthrough novel was Beatles (1984), which is one of the biggest selling literary titles in Norway ever and which new generations of youth keep falling in love with. In 2001 his epic major work The Half Brother was published, an extraordinarily generous and moving novel, which follows a family over a period of many years and through all stages of life. The Half Brother became an international success and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Between 2017 and 2021 the series Echoes of the City was published, which was met with exceptional criticism and reached a large readership. Saabye Christensen has written over 70 titles, won numerous prizes and awards, and has been translated into 36 languages.