Name: The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am (Norwegian Literature Series)
ISBN: 9781564787026

Kerri A. Pierce

Kjersti A. Skomsvold

The highly acclaimed debut of one of Norway's brightest talents.

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am (Norwegian Literature Series)

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Beth Bartholomew

Anna Lagerqvist

Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has died younger than she is now. Afraid that her life will be over before anyone knows that she lived, Mathea digs out her old wedding dress, bakes some sweet cakes, and heads out into the world- to make her mark. She buries a time capsule out in the yard. (It gets dug up to make room for a flagpole.) She wears her late husband's watch and hopes people will ask her for the time. (They never do.) Is it really possible for a woman to disappear so completely that the world won't notice her passing? The faster I walk, the smaller I am is an ironic twist on the nothing that life "must be lived to the fullest".