Using the lunar-like landscape of the Faroe Islands as a backdrop, the novel deals with the characters' attempts at finding a balance between being second best (and anonymous) without going into total isolation. Surrounded by a vivid and memorable cast of characters-aspiring pop musicians, Caribbean-obsessed psychologists, death-haunted photographers, girls who dream of anonymous men falling in love with them on buses, and even Buzz Aldrin himself, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion? is an epic story of Mattias's pop-saturated odyssey. With a wad of bills in his pocket and no memory of how he had come to be there, a truck approaches driven by a troubled man with an offer that will shortly change Mattias's life. (*The Faroe Islands are situated between Iceland and Great Britain). While obsessing about Aldrin, Mattias encounters a series of disasters, climaxing with him waking up on a rain-soaked road in the desolate Faroe Islands. It tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? InterviewĪward-winning Norwegian author and playwright Johan Harstad's debut, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? published to great acclaim in eleven languages, makes its way into English under the steerage of UWA Publishing (Perth) & Seven Stories Press (NYC).
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