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"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 the...

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Main Author: Grytten, Frode, 1960- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Norwegian
Published: New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, 2025.
Subjects:
Ferryboat captains > Fiction.
Terminally ill > Fiction.
Ferries > Fiction.
Spirits > Fiction.
Life > Fiction.
Memory > Fiction.
Norway > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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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"--
Item Description:Originally published in 2023 in Norway as Den dagen Nils Vik døde by Forlaget Oktober.
Physical Description:166 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9781643757452
1643757458
Author Notes:Frode Grytten  had his big breakthrough in 1999 with the Brage Prize-winning novel Beehive Song. He is known throughout Norway for his short stories, but has returned to the novel form after over a decade with The Ferryman and His Wife, which was also awarded the Brage Prize, Norway's most important literary award, and his first book to be translated widely around the world. 



Alison McCullough is a Norwegian-to-English translator and writer. Her recent translations include The Widow by Helene Flood, Reptile Memoirs by Silje Ulstein and Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine by Klara Hveberg, which was longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize 2022. Originally from a small mining community in the north of England, she now lives in Stavanger, Norway.

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