Life in a grand Norwegian mountain hotel is not what it used to be;
Norwegians have deserted the traditions of their nati- ve land,
with its invigorating ski trips and lake-fresh trout, for charter
tours to `the infernal south'. Sedd's grandparents are fighting a
losing battle to maintain standards at Fa vnesheim hotel, which has
been in the family for generations, whilst the young Sedd observes
developments with a keen eye for the absurd and a growing sense of
unease that all is not well. He has his own demons too, as he tries
to unearth the truth about his father, an Indian doctor who died as
Sedd was conceived, and his mother, who was `taken by Time' when he
was a toddler and whom he remembers only as a foxy-red sheen in the
air. Death stalks this peaceful place, as cracks in the polished
surface begin to show. The first to die is the bank manager, who
has kept the hotel going on credit, and whose demi- se has ominous
consequences for the whole district. Then the new bank manager's
daughter almost literally pesters the life out of Sedd; he has
trained as a life-saver, but finds saving people more complicated
than he had thought. He becomes obsessed with a locked room, which
he imagines will reveal the truth about his mother - but it refuses
to give up its secrets. Erik Fosnes Hansen's latest work from 2016
is a coming- of-age novel with a narrator who stands comparison
with Holden Caulfield or David Copperfield.
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