Before I Burn - Gaute (Author) Heivoll

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Résumé :
From Norway's pre-eminent young writer comes a startling novel about a pyromaniac raging through a close-knit community. This gripping and luminous novel explores madness, memory and the dark heart of the human psyche.

Biographie:
Gaute Heivoll made his debut in 2002 with the prose collection Liten dansende gutt [Small Dancing Boy], and since then has written poetry, children's books, short stories and novels. Heivoll was the recipient of the 2003 Tiden-prisen Prize. In 2006 he was the Norwegian representative to the Literary Festival Project Scritture Giovanni and his short-story Dr. Gordeau was translated into English, German and Italian.

* 'Gaute Heivoll's new book is great storytelling of the highest order, an existential horror story from the foremost of the young writers.' - Edvard Hoem * 'It has been an eerie pleasure to read Gaute Heivoll's thrilling novel about the pyromaniac who shook his home district in 1978. For jeg brenner ned shows once again that Heivoll is a key name among his generation of writers and one of the most significant in contemporary Norwegian literature. The novel has all the requisites to captivate readers and become Heivoll's definitive breakthrough.' - Hans Herbjornsrud