Mnem

A novel, a city, a world. A grand and ambitious work about a dream that becomes a nightmare.

It has been said that there are no limits to where a novel can go, and Mnem has accepted the challenge of this statement. “Let’s go bananas,” the author wrote to his editor when he got started. The result is a novel that is unlike anything else in contemporary Norwegian literature.

The city called Nem, which is the subject of this novel, seems at first glance to be a completely ordinary, moderately large city somewhere in Northern Europe. But the city has its own unique history. It was founded as a utopia, a place where societal problems would be resolved, and where people could live in peace and harmony. And that was exactly what happened during its first years — until everything fell apart.

The novel Mnem is constructed the way a city is laid out. Each chapter is a street, and each street has its own story. Here we meet the man who is slowly losing his memory, the family that sells everything they own for a single tulip bulb, and the composer who writes a symphony to silence.

Praise for Strangers first novel The Fabric of Events That We Call the World:

“A dazzling debut” (Berlingske Tidende)

“An original first novel that weaves its way widely through time and space” (Dagbladet)

“One of the year’s best books in Norway” (Morgenbladet)

Tiden 2007