Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

You Are So Beautiful

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You Are So Beautiful is a novel about a boy on the brink of becoming a young man, all whilst another young man is fading away. This is a story that touches upon grabbing the chances life gives you – and the fact that one day, quite suddenly, there may be no more chances to grab.

It’s summertime, and everything is different now. Uncle Simon moves in with Henrik and his mother. Simon and Henrik have always been close, but now Simon is ill – really ill. It’s not difficult to work out what will happen, even if his mother avoids coming right out and saying it. Henrik tells Simon that he has kissed Kjersti, a girl in his class at school, even though he hasn’t. He didn’t dare, even when he had the chance. Kjersti is due home soon from her holiday in Italy, and Henrik wonders if she has missed him at all.

English sample translation available

Cappelen Damm, 2013
114 Pages

So far sold to: Denmark

Praise:
“Tjønn writes with magnificent effect, but at the same time with nuance and tenderness. (…) It is the weightiest book I have read for a long time.”
Aftenposten

“The title ‘You Are So Beautiful’ can be seen as a description of the novel itself. (…) a very readable book for adults as well as for young people.”
VG

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Photo: Fredrik Arff

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn made his literary début with the novel Eg kom for å elske in 2002. Jung Tjønn is a journalist with NRK. In 2001 he started the electronic press Jung Forlag, through which he operates the literary portal jung.no, as well as the journal Nordahl & eftf. Tomorrow We Will Sit in The Sun (I morgen skal vi sitte i solen) was his début as a children’s book author, and it was sold to the Faroe Islands.