![]() We should all thank our lucky stars that Johan Harstad’s exceptional debut novel, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? has finally made it into English. Praise for Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?:īuzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? resembles Voltaire’s Candide: it is a faux-epic parody of the coming-of-age Bildungsroman or the Odyssey-like adventure. Surrounded by a vivid and memorable cast of characters - aspiring pop musicians, Caribbean-obsessed psychologists, death-haunted photographers, girls who dream of anonymous men falling in love with them on buses, and even Buzz Aldrin himself, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion? is an epic story of Mattias’s pop-saturated odyssey. While obsessing about Aldrin, Mattias encounters a series of disasters, climaxing with him waking up on a rain-soaked road in the desolate Faroe Islands. ![]() Goodreads tells me that it was first published in Norwegian in 2005, and subsequently made into a TV series in 2009. ![]() ![]() Using the lunar-like landscape of the Faroe Islands as a backdrop, the novel deals with the characters’ attempts at finding a balance between being second best (and anonymous) without going into total isolation. Buzz Aldrin, what happened to you in all the confusion was longlisted for the 2012 Best Translated Book Award and was Johan Harstad’s debut novel. Johan Harstad's debut novel tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. ![]()
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