The Cemetery of the Sea
Aslak Nore
Original title: Havets kirkegård
Publisher: Aschehoug , 2021
Pages: 486 pages
The matriarch of a wealthy Norwegian dynasty commits suicide on the family estate. Her unpublished memoirs about the family’s trauma – a wartime ship disaster that killed her husband and hundreds of others – are missing. Her granddaughter embarks on a journey to find the manuscript. Aided by a discredited secret agent with his motives, they wind up the family’s labyrinthian past – a dark and dramatic story of secrets, betrayals, and doomed love.
The Cemetery of the Sea is a literary thriller, a sweeping family saga, and a colorful drama about power and inheritance inspired by the great tales from the 19th century as well as modern tv series. Distinctly set in Norway, exploring universally human issues, the novel ends in a fateful final voyage along the stunningly scenic Norwegian coast. The quest to uncover the truth 75 years later converges in the shipwreck on the bottom of the sea 300 meters below the surface – where the shocking truth lies buried …
Foreign rights
Czech: Host vydavatelstvi
Danish: Gutkind
Dutch: Harper Collins
English (UK & CW): MacLehose Press (2 book deal)
Finnish: Gummerus (2 book deal)
French: Le bruit du monde (2 book deal)
German: Kiepenheuer & Wtsch (2 book deal)
Hebrew: Yedioth Books
Hungarian: Alexandra Publishing House
Icelandic: Storytel Iceland
Italian: Marsilio (3 book deal)
Lithuanian: Obuolys
Portuguese: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Romanian: Crime Scene
Russian: Corpus Publishing House (2 book deal)
Spanish: Ediciones B (Penguin Random House Spain)
Swedish: Norstedts (2 book deal)
Awards
Nominated for GRAND PRIX ELLE, France