The ferryman and his wife [LP]
"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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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
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[Waterville, ME] :
Thorndike Press,
2026
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| Edition: | Large print edition. |
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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 theroute, 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"-- |
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| Item Description: | "A novel"--Cover. "Originally published in 2023 in Norwegian as 'Den dagen Nils Vik døde' by Forlaget Oktober"--title page verso. Copyright ©2023 by Frode Grytten. Translation copyright ©2025 by Alison McCullough. -- title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 231 pages (large print) ; 23 cm |
| Awards: | ALA Notable Books for Adults, Selection 2026 Brage Prize, Fiction Winner 2023 |
| ISBN: | 9781420534672 142053467X |
