The calf / by the author Leif Høghaug ; translated from Norwegian by David M. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Høghaug, Leif, 1974- Author.

Contributor:

Smith, David M., 1982- translator.

Standardized Title:

Kælven. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/9fa301e7-0cbe-5c5c-07ae-9fee5becb99a

Language:

English

Norwegian

Subjects (All):

Robots.

Clerks.

Office buildings.

Memory.

Canyons.

clerical workers.

canyons.

Hadeland (Norway).

Genre:

Black humor.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

234 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First English edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum, 2025.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the Norwegian.

Summary:

"In a subterranean office labyrinth somewhere in Hadeland, Norway, a mechanical barn gnome with a metal bucket for a head spends his days shredding paper, brewing coffee, and trying to forget a certain late summer night in the woods sometime in the 1980s. That night--hazy, mythic, traumatic--centers on the Mare Cooter Canyon and a ragtag bunch of teenage boys calling themselves 'the cowboys.' As the narrator's memory crackles and sputters, we encounter grotesque archetypes: a resurrected Christ-like figure called the Dead Feller, a mysterious, moon-faced woman who may be an employment caseworker, and a strange, amorphous alien called the Calf. What happened out there, and who--or what--is telling the story?"--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Translation of: Kælven.

Other Format:

Online version Høghaug, Leif, 1974- Calf

ISBN:

9781913744243

1913744248

OCLC:

1523285101

Publisher Number:

90104033244

CIPO000082838