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Three teenagers are going on the trip of a lifetime. Only one is
coming back. It's been more than forty years since NASA sent the
first men to the moon, and to grab some much-needed funding and
attention, they decide to launch an historic international lottery
in which three lucky teenagers can win a week-long trip to moon
base DARLAH 2-a place that no one but top government officials even
knew existed until now. The three winners, Antoine, Midori, and
Mia, come from all over the world. But just before the scheduled
launch, the teenagers each experience strange, inexplicable events.
Little do they know that there was a reason NASA never sent anyone
back there until now-a sinister reason. But the countdown has
already begun...
Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? opens with
the line: "The person you love is 72.8% water, and it hasn't rained
for weeks." From there, Brage Award-winning author and playwright
Johan Harstad's debut--previously published to great success in
eleven countries and now making its first English-language
appearance--tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener
living in Stavanger, Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, second man
on the moon: the man who was willing to stand in Neil Armstrong's
shadow in order to work, diligently and humbly, for the success of
the Apollo 11 mission. Following a series of personal and
professional disasters, Mattias finds himself lying on a
rain-soaked road in the desolate, treeless Faroe Islands,
population only a few thousand, a wad of bills in his pocket and no
memory of how he had come to be there--that's when a truck
approaches him, driven by a troubled, fantastic man with an offer
that will shortly change Mattias's life. And so, surrounded by a
vivid and memorable cast of characters--aspiring pop musicians,
Caribbean-obsessed psychologists, death-haunted photographers,
girls who dream of anonymous men falling in love with them on bus
trips, and even Buzz Aldrin himself--launches Buzz Aldrin, What
Happened To You In All The Confusion?, the epic story of Mattias's
pop-saturated odyssey through the world of unconventional
psychiatry, souvenir sheep-making, the Cardigans, and space: the
space between himself and other people, a journey maybe as remote
and personally dangerous as the trip to the moon itself.
Mattias is a 30-something gardener living in Norway, whose idol is
Buzz Aldrin. Following a series of personal and professional
disasters, Mattias finds himself lying on a rain-soaked road in the
Faroe Islands with a pocket full of cash, when a truck approaches
him driven by a fantastic man with an offer that will change his
life.
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Red Handler (Paperback)
Johan Harstad; Translated by David Smith
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