by Lars Mytting · Gyldendal Norsk Forlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788205558151
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«Svøm med dem som drukner» is the historical and mystery novel by Lars Mytting, published by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag in paperback (467 pages, in Norwegian).
In 1971, a Norwegian couple dies in France when a First World War grenade explodes; their son reappears without anyone knowing where he had been. Edvard, raised by his grandfather in Gudbrandsdalen, travels to Shetland and France to reconstruct the family past, linked to twentieth-century Europe and to a cabinetmaker in 1930s Paris.
The work won the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize (Bokhandlerprisen) in 2014. The novel was originally published in 2014; the present edition appeared in 2021.
For readers of Scandinavian literature and for book clubs seeking family sagas with a European backdrop.
