Men No One Needs
Menn som ingen treng
Men driving away. Men who stay. Men crashing new cars. Men with too much debt. Men with unusual genitalia. Lonely men. Peaceful men. Violent men. Honest men. Criminal men. Men somewhere in between. Men from Rjukan. Men from Lillestrøm. Men from Warsaw. Men in a new, twisted Norway. Men who need women. Men who need men. Men nobody needs.
It’s been nine years since Frode Grytten last published a short story collection, the genre in which he first created a name for himself, and which is possibly closest to his heart. Drawing up a map of Norway and Europe, the stories of Men No One Needs are full of desperation, love, hopelessness and comedy.
Nominated for the Norwegian Bookseller’s Prize 2016.
“Frode Grytten has written an incredibly good short story collection … In Grytten stories there is poetry in each word, in each sentence … Each story keeps me in its grip until the very end: I want to finish it, I want to see where Grytten takes me”
VG
“Grytten writes brilliantly and with empathy about men on the verge of a breakdown…His mastery of the form has an overwhelming impact….”
Aftenposten
