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020			_a9781529413335
040			_aKenya National Library Service _erda
082			_a839.82374 CHR
100			_aChristensen, Lars Saabye _eauthor
245			_aFriendship / _cLars Saabye Christensen; translated from the Norwegian by Don Barlett.
300			_a 460 pages ; _c 21 cm
500			_aFirst published in the Norwegian language as Byens Spor : Maj by Cappelen Damm AS, Oslo, in 2019.
520			_aPart Two of the Echoes of the City trilogy, set in post-war Oslo, by an author who understands the city like no other. In Kirkeveien, Oslo, in the year 1956, forty-year-old Maj is worn down by being a homemaker and widowed mother. To the indignation of the Red Cross ladies, she cautiously frees herself from the role she has otherwise fulfilled to the letter. She finds a job that she turns out to be more than good at, and some kind of love, too. Her friend Margrethe is sick of her marriage to the antiquarian bookseller, Olaf Hall, but cannot think of divorce. Jesper gets a girlfriend who opens the door to a new, more liberated environment of vegetarianism and politics. And his best friend Jostein realises that his talent for making money will allow him access to a world that is larger and richer than that of the Oslo slaughterhouse. Friendship is a beautifully orchestrated story about people and their dreams, about social conventions, personal constraints and what it takes to have the courage to realise oneself. In this book brimming with human insight, as in Echoes of the City, in each of these characters we recognise something of ourselves.
650			_aDomestic fiction.
700			_a Barlett, Don _etranslator
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