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Reviewed on September 1, 2017 | Top World Fiction for Fall
This quietly affecting novel from award-winning Norwegian author Heivoll (Before I Burn) opens in 1994 with the narrator sorting through his parents' belongings—a common enough act but in this case revelatory of an unexpected story. At the end of World War II, when he was a boy, his parents moved from Oslo to Norway's rural south to open a home for mentally disabled individuals who could not ca...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
