Rust
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
Original title: Rust
Publisher: Kolon forlag, 2009
Genre: Novel
Pages: 739 pages
Rust is an extensive novel, about exile, revenge, nostalgia, terror and torture – as well as love, rock, coming of age, friendship and confusion.
The first part of Rust takes place in Norway, and is about Thomas, Passolini and Daniel who play in a rock band and live a privileged bohemian life until one day the enigmatic and brilliantly talented Passolini suddenly disappears and leaves his friends in a vacuum. The second part of the novel takes place in Buenos Aires and tells the life stories of a group of Latin Americans – almost all of them have lived in exile, (Passolini is one of them) – until they assassinate eight closely selected persons, military doctors, torturers and squealers.
Rust is a story about memory, exile, inheritance and ghosts
Awards
The Cappelen Prize, 2004
The Sult Prize, 2005
The Norwegian Poetry Book Club Prize, 2005
P2-Radio Listerners Novel Prize 2012
Shortlisted for The Norwegian Bookseller’s Prize 2012
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2017
The Triztan Vindtorn’s Poetry Prize 2022
