The Ferryman and his Wife

Nils Vik wakes up on November 18 and knows it will be the day he dies. He looks around the empty house one last time before stepping on to his beloved boat. His dog, dead for many years, leaps aboard with him, and then the other dead begin to emerge - from the woods along the fjord, from each of the docks along the route. The people from the past accompany him as he revisits memories and waits for Marta, his remarkable late wife, to finally join him on the boat again.
Timeless and absorbing, Grytten's long-awaited masterpiece is the story of an ordinary yet utterly profound life told in reverse.

The renowned, bestselling norwegian author Frode Grytten takes readers on a quietly epic journey : Ferryman Nils Vik's last route along the fjord, on what he knows will be his last day alive.