Nothing Happened

Norway in 1939 -- the year before the German Occupation, a time when many things still seemed possible. Three women students are exploring the limits of love and friendship: Bente, lively and rebellious, trying to break away from the stifling roles of wife and mother; Gro, beautiful and affectionate but oddly remote; and Edle, the shy, brilliant history major, deeply in love for the first time in her life. Eight years later Edle finally tells the story of that exciting, troubling spring, when so much happened... and so much couldn't happen. Condemned for its "perversity" and virtually ignored when first published in 1948, this novel by well-known author Ebba Haslund is one of a handful of novels with a lesbian theme ever written in Norwegian. An important rediscovery, Nothing Happened is a moving story of female friendship and the courage to love.