Gine Cornelia Pedersen

Spring and Beyond

Vår i det hinsidige

Spring and Beyond is a powerful novel about a young girl’s awakening – to sexuality, growth and development, and sudden death. Spring is practising kissing. Experimenting with rubbing her body against the bark of a tree. She is unguarded in her experience of the world. Then death comes knocking, taking someone from her. Is it possible to make contact with the dead? Where do they go? And who is God, really? Spring looks for signs even as everything around her picks up speed, propelling her towards adulthood.

Pedersen vår i det hinsidige
Pedersen, gina cornelia photo håkon borg
Photo: Håkon Borg

Gine Cornelia Pedersen (b. 1986) received the Tarjei Vesaas First Writers Award for her critically acclaimed debut novel Zero (Null) in 2013. The novel Love Story (Kjærlighetshistorie) was published in 2015. Spring and Beyond (Vår i det hinsidige) is her third novel. She is also a renowned actor, nominated to Gullruten in 2016 for her role as Nenne in the TV-series Young and Promising (Unge lovende).