The Carriage Stone (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780802313058)

The first appearance in English of this finely wrought novel by Norwegian writer Holmebakk (1922-81) exploring the fundamental tensions between life and death that perhaps only love and hope can palliate. Two middle-aged men, retired Lutheran pastor Eilif Grotteland and Olav Klungland, a novelist and active communist, meet by accident outside a hospital. Olav has just visited a dying comrade, and Eilif is admitting his terminally ill wife, but these obvious reminders of death are mere introductions to the spiritual concerns that preoccupy both men. Both are at the "carriage stone" in their lives, a stone symbolizing the moment of choice between dying or living.

Author: Sigbjorn Holmebakk
ISBN-10: 0802313051
ISBN-13: 9780802313058
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Language: English
Published: 12/31/1995
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.79h x 5.71w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/1995 pg. 1479
Publishers Weekly 03/20/1995 pg. 45
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/1995 pg. 93
New York Times 03/03/1996 pg. 18