TOMORROW IN THE BATTLE THINK ON ME [JAVIER MARIAS, 1994]

"There are four or five people in everybody's life who must be informed immediately of what is happening to us, we can't bare them to go on believing what is no longer true, not for a minute; for them to believe that we are married when we have just been widowed or that we still have parents when we have suddenly become orphans, that we have company when that company has just left, or are in good health when we have suddenly fallen ill.

That they should think us alive when we are dead."
[Javier Marias, 1994]

BUT WHAT SILENCE!

Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps. [Samuel Beckett]

BUZZ ALDRIN, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU IN ALL THE CONFUSION - A NOVEL

Johan Harstad’s debut novel tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon.

Using the lunar-like landscape of the Faroe Islands as a backdrop, the novel deals with the characters’ attempts at finding a balance between being second best (and anonymous) without going into total isolation...