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Beatles

av Lars Saabye Christensen

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ISBN
9788202286408
Forlag
Cappelen
Serie
Kim Karlsen, bok 1
Utgivelsesår
2008
Sidetall
732
Språk
Bokmål
Format
Heftet

Beskrivelse

Beatles is a cheerful and melancholy novel about four Beatles obsessed Oslo boys born in 1951, from when they as thirteen-year-olds stand on the threshold of the grown-up world – “We anticipated our future, and it looked pretty good” – until the 25th of September 1972. No one escapes dry-shod when the waves of the student uproar out there in Europe come washing over them and their protected lives.

The novel has become one of the biggest sales successes in modern Norwegian publishing history. It was Lars Saabye Christensen’s great break-through as an author, and continues to be read by new generations. In 2006 Dagbladet’s readers voted Beatles the best novel throughout the last 25 years, and when this is written, the novel is being translated into English, French, and Spanish. It is the first volume in a trilogy, followed up by Bly (Lead), and is concluded with Bisettelsen (The Funeral).

The press about Beatles:

‘I just ask myself: Why have no German author written such an outstanding novel about this era?’
Die Zeit

‘Beatles is an elegantly told story … It can be read in one sitting, and tastes of an entire summer and half a childhood…’
Público, Portugal

‘A tribute to love and friendship, and an acceptance of the great solitude of the soul. Beatles is a literary blues. Read it. Hum, sigh, smile. Enjoy!’
Aktuelt, Denmark

‘His literary details are terrifi c. In brief scenes or quick replies flashing by he nails the
atmosphere.’
Göteborgs Tidende, Sweden

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.

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