Beatles

"I could just as well have mentioned his great novel The Half Brother , a magnificent work. Lars is the poet among us, a constantly working metaphor machine. He is a master of poetic prose, constantly posing the everlasting Norwegian double-question: ‘Who are we? And where do we come from?’ Maybe expanding or deepening that too: ‘How the hell did I end up being the person I am?’ Get the weekly Five Books newsletter Both Beatles and The Half Brother are coming-of-age stories, speckled with details, impressions, time-markers, time-shifts, smells and sounds and fury—often melancholic, but with hilarious episodes, shocking understatements, silent cunning and even big tragedy. He should be read by all people who fall into any of the following three categories: 1) Those interested in Norway. 2) Those interested in Norwegian literature. 3) Those interested in literature. Lars is so typically Norwegian in his settings and so typically human in his thinking that he can be recognised by everyone whoever they think they are."