Part of Series
Tredje bind begynder i 1968. Der er opbrud og værdiskred på alle fronter. Majs datter, Stine, er nu en ung kvinde, der flirter med marxisme og maoisme og for en tid opgiver sine medicinstudier for at blive flyttemand! Jostein er dog stadig overbevist forretningsmand, nu forhandler han marcipan fra Lübeck og ser også sådan ud. Men så pludselig sker der noget. Trude, Jespers kæreste, modtager et postkort med et motiv fra Como-søen fra Jesper, der har været forsvundet i flere år. Men hvor er Jesper, og hvad er der sket? I Byens spor 3 samles alle trådene fra de to foregående romaner. Det særlige ved romanen er et stærkt autofiktivt spor, hvor forfatteren LSC træder tydeligt frem og fortæller historien om sin kræftdiagnose- og behandling, og kommenterer sin egen skriveproces.
Author
Lars Saabye Christensen is a gifted storyteller, a narrator who is imaginative, but equally down to earth. His realism alternates between poetic image and ingenious incident, conveyed in supple metropolitan language and slang that never smacks of the artificial or forced. His heroes possess a good deal of self-irony. Indeed, critics have drawn parallels with the black humour of Woody Allen. But beneath the liveliness of his portrayal melancholy always lurks in the books. Since his début in 1976 Saabye Christensen has written ten collections of poetry, five collections of short stories and twelve novels. His great break through came with the novel Beatles in 1984. The book store sale of over 200,000 copies of the Norwegian edition has made this one of the greatest commercial successes in Norway, and it was voted the best novel of the last 25 years by Dagbladet's readers in 2006.
