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TRONDHEIM
A son's near-death in a foreign country reveals the fault lines and bonds in a relationship
For readers of Annie Ernaux, Gerbrand Bakker, Olga Tokarczuk.
Alba and Lil are in the midst of the fractious process of renovating their Montpellier apartment when the phone call comes in: their son Pierre, studying in Norway, has had a heart attack, and is in hospital, in a coma. The two women race across the French border and fly from Barcelona to the state-of-the-art Norwegian hospital.
They are given a flat on site, but are in limbo as they wait for their comatose son to wake. Pierre collapsed in the street, no one knows how long his heart was stopped; now the doctors keep him in a coma, till he is strong enough for waking.
Forceful, restless Lil prowls the hospital, roams wintry Trondheim; Alba's calm vigil at the hospital frustrates her. Caught between the surreal and the mundane, both women are acutely aware of the fault lines angling between them. As Dr Mya and her team attempt to bring Pierre back to consciousness, the anatomy of a faltering relationship and individuals' darker motivations are laid bare.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cormac James was born in Cork, Ireland. A graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA, he has published short fiction in Columbia, Phoenix Irish Short Stories, and The Dublin Review. His first novel, TRACK AND FIELD, was published in 2000, and his second, THE SURFACING, in 2014 (US: Bellevue Literary Press; UK: Sandstone). He lives in Montpellier, France, with his wife and son.
Alba and Lil are in the midst of the fractious process of renovating their Montpellier apartment when the phone call comes in: their son Pierre, studying in Norway, has had a heart attack, and is in hospital, in a coma. The two women race across the French border and fly from Barcelona to the state-of-the-art Norwegian hospital.
They are given a flat on site, but are in limbo as they wait for their comatose son to wake. Pierre collapsed in the street, no one knows how long his heart was stopped; now the doctors keep him in a coma, till he is strong enough for waking.
Forceful, restless Lil prowls the hospital, roams wintry Trondheim; Alba's calm vigil at the hospital frustrates her. Caught between the surreal and the mundane, both women are acutely aware of the fault lines angling between them. As Dr Mya and her team attempt to bring Pierre back to consciousness, the anatomy of a faltering relationship and individuals' darker motivations are laid bare.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cormac James was born in Cork, Ireland. A graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA, he has published short fiction in Columbia, Phoenix Irish Short Stories, and The Dublin Review. His first novel, TRACK AND FIELD, was published in 2000, and his second, THE SURFACING, in 2014 (US: Bellevue Literary Press; UK: Sandstone). He lives in Montpellier, France, with his wife and son.
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