2025
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.
An explosive novel. Enter a hardcore party of rock and revenge.
Immense, eccentric and forceful … a unique reading experience ….
A dizzingly good book. A book you want others to read.
Rust is an immense and thorough project, thematically complex, yet playfully easy to read.
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
Eva Lene Gilje Østensen
