2025
Oscar is fifty years old and works as a teacher. He lives a good and harmonious life with his wife Maria and their son Erik. Just before the Easter holiday, the principal asks him to speak with a student at the school who has started wearing a wig. Oscar feels taken aback, because he has never shared his own story with anyone at the school. He lost his hair at the age of seven and wore a wig for many years.
During the holiday, Oscar also comes across an article about a new, promising medicine – a treatment the state will not support financially. All of this stirs something within him. He feels a need to put his emotions into words – feelings he has hardly shared with anyone.
The book is recommended to everyone (6/6).
An incredibly beautiful book (6/6)
A brilliant fiction debut (5/6)
“Espen Skjerven writes with such playful ease and skill about a vulnerable subject he knows everything about.”
"A truly beautiful, tough, and tender read with compelling characters."
Rating 5/5.
"...the pages fly by in this lovely story."
"I warmly recommend the novel to both young and adult readers."
“The book is written with honesty, vulnerability, humor, and courage…I was pulled right into the story.”
Espen Skjerven
Kjetil Birkedal Pedersen
