OLIVER (OLIVER)year:
2015
genre:
young adult novel, 220 p.
publisher:
age:
15+awards:
Gouden Lijst 2016 (Golden Frame, Best book for younth)
OLIVER is a novel about the sixteen-year old Norwegian boy Oliver Kjelsberg, two years before he will meet the Dutch Tycho Zeling - so, two years before the events descibed in my novel THE DAYS OF BLUEGRASSLOVE.
OLIVER has great parents, it's summer holiday, he is progressing in his biggest hobby: playing football (he's a goalkeeper), and he has a best friend, Bendik, who is also his nephew. Oliver is not a talker, but does he need to be?
Well, in this book, all of a sudden his parent's marriage collapses, and within a day some more things happen that make the world seem a whole lot different than Oliver and Bendik always had believed. How do these two boys cope with the scope of events that they are forced to face?
- This book is meant to be read separately. But it could also be seen as a prequel to THE DAYS OF BLUEGRASSLOVE and, in a way, as a sequel to OUR THIRD BODY.
THE DAYS OF BLUEGRASSLOVE slightly deals with 'love', OUR THIRD BODY with 'friendships' and OLIVER with 'family'. But that's just an indication.
- Together with this book an updated version of the 15-year old THE DAYS OF BLUEGRASSLOVE was released.
