In the novel The Strange City Lars Amund Vaage draws a portrait of the controversial psychologist Wilhelm Reich. The narrator’s voice is close to Reich himself, and Vaage shows us the universal as well as the unique about this complex and fascinating man. The main part of the novel takes place in Norway during the first part of Reich’s stay in 1934. Here his friendship with Sigurd Hoel is depicted, as well as cooperation and conflicts with other central people from the Norwegian cultural scene. The novel also offers glimpses into Reich’s childhood and in Bukovina, his time as a student in Vienna and his relationship to Freud.