I fjor var en lang natt : roman

<p class=" text-LEFT">In <i>Last Year was a Long Night </i>we follow the wanderings of a nameless protagonist through Oslo’s underworld, a realm where alcohol, drugs, tall tales, superficial acquaintances, dirty money, one night stands, fights and tragic destinies throng together, staggering from bar to bar through the wintry night. And like a dark shadow hanging over it all: a dead father, an unusual childhood and a crippled romance.

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<p class=" text-LEFT">I want to catch a bus that leaves in twelve minutes, call my Dad and be finished with that by the time we get downtown, make a short stop at Robinet, where I get a special discount since I used to work there, order half a pint and two fingers of Fernet, try to steady my nerves, send a text to Pettersen and get him to make a small delivery, pop in to the crapper and pee through my arse, snort a couple of fat lines, feel better, kiss the mirror, order another round, roll my eyes and grin while I lie through my grating teeth to people I hardly know. I’m out of the door in less than a minute, I just get up and go.

<p class=" text-LEFT">REVIEWS:

<p>"These are 'Friends' in hell. Or at least in Oslo. ... Within its screwed, crooked frames, the story works well." <i>Dagens Næringsliv</i>

<p>"Kjørsvik writes well, the book is fun, and he also manages to get a wound undertone that gives the story a deeper sound base." <i>Adresseavisen</i>

<p>"Joakim Kjørsvik writes cruel and honest about the city's less stressful people." <i>Dagbladet</i>

<p>"It's bad and raw stories that are told. But at the same time it is done with a drive that hardly avoids grasping." <i>Hamar Arbeiderblad</i>

<p>"Joakim Kjørsvik is a good publisher with a sense of comedy in the tragic." <i>Dag og Tid</i>