Flight
Nominated for the Booksellers’ Prize 2021
Nominated for the Young Critics’ Prize 2021
Top 10 translated novels 2023, Litteratursiden.dk
It’s Christmas Eve. Elisabet and Sakarias have visited the grave, lit candles, brushed the snow off the stone and now he’s driving her home.
Each of them will spend this Christmas, the first without their son, in solitude. Sorrow has formed an impassable void between them and they have long parted ways.
But as it turns out, they end up spending the evening together after all. Elisabet sits down by the piano and plays a piece of music their son used to like. It is to be a very special night before Christmas for them both.
Carl Frode Tillers novel «Flight» describes the relationship between the living and the dead, challending the boundaries of what we would perceive as realism.