2026
From Brage Prize–winning author Tore Kvæven comes an evocative novel about love and loss, the trails we follow, and the moments that alter the course of a life.
Torstein grows up on a remote mountain farm in Sirdal, at the end of the nineteenth century. His world is small but complete: the farm, the changing seasons, the mountains he knows by heart – and Theoline, the spirited girl from the neighbouring farm who has been his closest companion since childhood.
But this summer, something is shifting. His friendship with Theoline is becoming something neither of them quite knows how to name. His father expects more of him. And the familiar world of childhood is beginning to give way to something more uncertain. Then the world Torstein has always taken for granted begins to unravel, and childhood comes to an abrupt end.
Set against the stark beauty of the Norwegian mountains, Where the Trail Ends is a finely observed novel about the bonds that shape us, the losses that change us, and what happens when the world we have always known can no longer remain the same.
With his story of Torstein’s hunting expedition, Tore Kvæven has earned his place among the very finest writers in Nordic literature.
A superb Norwegian novel! Tore Kvæven’s new historical novel set in the Middle Ages is so exceptional and superbly well written, that VG’s reviewer went back to re-read some chapters several times.
Tore Kvæven
Tommy Ellingsen
