The Ferryman and His Wife

In the spirit of Amor Towles and George Saunders,the renownedbestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten takes readers on a quietly epic journey: ferry driver Nils Vik’s last route along the fjordon what he knows will be his last day alive. Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mindand looks around the empty house one last timebefore stepping onto his beloved boat. His dogdead these many yearsleaps aboard with himand then the other dead begin to emerge – from the woods along the fjordfrom each of the ferry stops along the routefrom his logbook full of memories and quotations and jotted-down notes about the weather conditions. The people from the past accompany him nowprodding himshowing him what he might have missed beforeas he waits for his Martahis lateremarkable wifeto finally join him on the boat again. Winner of the prestigious Brage Prizeand considered to be Grytten’s long-awaited masterpieceThe Ferryman and His Wife is the story of a quietyet utterly profoundlife told in reverse. Timeless and absorbingthis is a novel about what we take with us – those moments that might seem insignificant as they happen but prove to be the most meaningfulin the end.