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“After which he could not save himself from utter exhaustion at the thought that, next day, he must begin afresh his attempts to find out what Odette had been doing, must use all his influence to contrive to see her. This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result, was so cruel a scourge that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he felt an actual joy in the idea that he had,

"With the result that he came to regret every pleasure that he tasted in her company, every new caress that he invented (and had been so imprudent as to point out to her how delightful it was), every fresh charm that he found in her, for he knew that, a moment later, they would go to enrich the collection of instruments in his secret torture-chambers."

A difficult read. How would you like to be the last person alive on Earth? A story about survival, love, and hope.

Unconnected stories of middle class Norwegians, except that a huge mysterious star appears overhead above them all.

The twists and turns of his narratives are quite astounding. Suburban life has never been more interesting and strange. Something we would think as being so common and banal is simply not.