The Ferryman and his wife

"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.
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240 1 0 |a Den dagen Nils Vik døde.  |l English 
245 1 4 |a The Ferryman and his wife /  |c Frode Grytten ; translated from the Norwegian by Alison McCullough. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group,  |c 2025. 
264 4 |c ©2025. 
300 |a 166 pages ;  |c 21 cm. 
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500 |a Originally published in 2023 in Norway as Den dagen Nils Vik døde by Forlaget Oktober. 
546 |a In English; translated from Norwegian. 
520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
650 0 |a Ferryboat captains  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Terminally ill  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Ferries  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Spirits  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Life  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Memory  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a Norway  |v Fiction. 
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