FLAMME PUBLISHING
ACCORDING TO THE SEA With his debut novel Over the Bridge from 2013, Lasse W. Fosshaug showed that he masters the classic worker's novel. In his second book, Fosshaug takes the proletariat with him into the dystopia. According to the Sea is a book about the little people in the big story. About the individual's role in space and time. The book reads as a thriller, with an innovative mix of worker's novel and dystopian sci-fi, and the reader is challenged to reflect on the role technology plays in our lives. AUTHOR:
LASSE WARDENÆR FOSSHAUG TITLE ENGLISH:
‘Lasse W. Fosshaug has written a novel that manages to entertain, and at the same time take its reader dead seriously.’
TITLE NORWEGIAN:
MORGENBLADET
ACCORDING TO THE SEA ALT ETTER HAVET
‘Relevant Science Fiction has often been used to comment the present. Fosshaug does this, and he does it well … A novel that at its best almost erases the passage between fantasy and realism.’
FORMAT:
130x205 mm / 168 pages
NRK
‘In Lasse W. Fosshaug's novel the end of civilization is in the making … It is the way he paints the picture of the ruin of civilization that make the story glow, with a matte, grimy shine of almost existential melancholy.’ KLASSEKAMPEN
‘Catastrophe and collapse.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD
Lasse W. Fosshaug (1982–) has previously published Looking for Love (2011), a conceptual poetry collection based on leaked intelligence reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2013 he published his first novel, Over the Bridge. He studied at Litterär gestaltning in Gothenburg.
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