A novel of intersecting historical threads. Love narrates
celebrated Norwegian writer Tomas Espedal's search for death. The
decision blossoms within I-the I-person-"like some interior bloom,
black and beautiful" on a warm spring day in May, and it is this
resolution that fills his self-imposed final year with meaning:
Death. It can be so beautiful. One must create this beauty for
oneself. One must submit to this naturalness, one must choose it,
like pulling the duvet over oneself in bed or jumping off a bridge.
But almost immediately life deals I a wildcard: a new love affair
brings some of the best days he's ever known and threatens his pact
with death. Will he be able to leave Aka and the child she's
carrying? He has put an endpoint on his life to intensify
experience but is he sure that disappearing from their lives,
becoming an absent father, is the best thing for all of them? Set
against Espedal's constant reference, the ebb and flow of the
seasons, something close to ecstasy propels this most introspective
of narratives towards a universal truth.
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