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The ferryman and his wife

Grytten, Frode 1960- (author.). McCullough, Alison (translator.).

Summary: "Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mind, and looks around the empty house one last time, before stepping onto his beloved boat. His dog, dead these many years, leaps aboard with him, and then the other dead begin to emerge - from the woods along the fjord, from each of the ferry stops along the route, from his logbook full of memories and quotations and jotted-down notes about the weather conditions. The people from the past accompany him now, prodding him, showing him what he might have missed before, as he waits for his Marta, his late, remarkable wife, to finally join him on the boat again"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781643757452
  • ISBN: 1643757458
  • Physical Description: print
    166 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill/Little, Brown and Company, [2025]

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General Note:
"Originally published in 2023 in Norway as 'Den dagen Nils Vik døde' by Forlaget Oktober"--title page verso.
Language Note:
In English, translated from the Norwegian.

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Subject:
Ferryboat captains Fiction
Terminally ill Fiction
Ferries Fiction
Spirits Fiction
Life Fiction
Memory Fiction
Norway Fiction
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Magic realist fiction.

Available copies

  • 17 of 28 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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  • 5 current holds with 28 total copies.
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