See You Tomorrow

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"Intense, riotous, funny, sexy and thrilling . . . Renberg is a great writer" MATT HAIG "An exceptional novel . . . majestic page-turner" KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD Pal has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much more than he can ever hope to pay back on his modest salary as a civil servant. He's desperate that nobody finds out especially not his teenage daughters or his ex-wife. It's time to get creative. Sixteen-year-old Sandra also has a secret. She's in love with the impossibly charming delinquent Daniel William, a love so strong and pure that nothing can get in its way. Not her concerned parents, not Jesus, and certainly not some other girl. Cecilie has the biggest secret of them all, a baby growing inside her. She can only hope that her boyfriend Rudi is the child's father. But although she loves him intensely, she feels trapped in their small-time criminal existence, and dreams of an escape from it all. Over three fateful September days, these lives cross in a whirlwind of brutality, laughter, tragedy and love that will change them forever. A fast-paced, moving and darkly funny page-turner about people who are trying to fill the holes in their lives, See You Tomorrow combines horror and hope, heavy metal music and literary marvels to become a startlingly original, eerie and hilarious novel about friendship, crime, loneliness and tragic death. Translated from the Norwegian by Sean Kinsella WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD

Tore Renberg is a multi-award-winning author who has distinguished himself as a literary critic and TV host for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. A student of philosophy and literature at the university of Bergen, he first achieved major success at the age of 23 with the short-story collection Sleeping Triangle, and then the novel The Man Who Loved Yngve, which was made into a a major motion picture. In addition to his work as an essayist and novelist, Tore has played in several bands and written for the screen and the theatre. His work has been translated into 15 languages.

Tore Renberg is one of Norway's finest young writers -- Jo Nesbo An intense, riotous, funny, sexy and thrilling book, full of grit and truth. There is not a single boring sentence. This is a full voltage blast of a novel and Tore Renberg is a great writer -- Matt Haig A novel soundtracked immaculately yet with little pretension . . . a fast-paced, polyvocal tale with a rare fluidity * The Quietus * An exceptional novel, as incredible as it is realistic, written with an explosive force and a pulsating passion for Balzac. A majestic page-turner! -- Karl Ove Knausgaard The greatest storyteller of his generation * Aftenposten *