MASTER OF NONE
Ingens herre
FictionRakel runs a chicken farm where she lives alone in the main house. The barracks houses an ever-changing selection of 4-5 male workers, mostly foreigners. Krystof, Mustafa, Vasil and the newly arrived Erwan at the moment. Each of them has their own place and task in the barracks.
Chicken Herd Number 88 has just been sent to the slaughterhouse.
“A low-key, intense and excellent novel. is a novel that contains a lot; modern agriculture, loneliness, alienation and the whole thing written with a deeply human tone. It is also a very good novel. Pretty much as usual from Evjemo.” ••••••
“The novel is like a colorful flower, unfolding as I read (...) a story about a small piece of Norway of today.”
“Smoother transitions and more elegant interweavings of stories haven't been seen in Norwegian literature since Øystein Lønn. The clever zooming between the big picture and the small details has already been mentioned. Evjemo is poetic and sharp, empirical and sensory. And like with Lønn, you don't always know where you are, and what's happening. ”
