![]() ![]() It deals with a person who, instead of trying to be best, decides to be second best in life, like his hero, Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. The novel is mainly set in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. 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 bus trips, and even Buzz Aldrin himself, Mattias must come to the realization that he cannot always blend into the background. ('Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion'). Goodreads tells me that it was first published in Norwegian in 2005, and subsequently made into a TV series in 2009. From there, Brage-Award-winning author and playwright Johan Harstad's debut novel-previously published to great success in eleven countries-tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Stavanger, Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon: the man who was willing to stand in Neil Armstrong's shadow in order to work, diligently and humbly, for the success of the Apollo 11 mission. Award-winning Norwegian author and playwright Johan Harstads debut, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion published to great acclaim in. 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. In Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, readers follow a man who wished not to be followed, a man who, after a series of personal and professional disasters, finds himself lying on a rain-soaked road in the desolate, treeless Faroe Islands, with a wad of bills in his pocket and no memory of how he got there. ![]()
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