If not for his neighbour Gyda, Halldor’s life would be rather glum. But even though there are only nine-and-a-half steps from his door to hers, the path there is strangely convoluted. Like most everybody else, they’re waiting for life to strike them with purpose, impregnate
them with meaning – for love to drop in their laps like the snow pouring down from the heavens.

This story is about one man’s obsession over one woman, but it is also a love story about work and about place, about how we find
and/or make meaning in human existence and what it takes for this meaning to be either removed or rendered useless.

“These descriptions show an example of artful fiction writing and before I move on from this curious novel, I want to mention that Norddahl, in addition to being a daring and innovative author, also has a particularly powerful grasp of language, the key tool of any writer. 
You don’t always pause at sentences and paragraphs just to savour the way they are put together and how the result is literally delicious as they flow and make up a larger entity. But that’s exactly what happens when you read Eirikur Orn Norddahl.”
BJORN THOR VILHJALMSSON, VIDSJA, ICELAND NATIONAL BROADCASTING SERVICE

 “A highly entertaining novel!”
THORGEIR TRYGGVASON, KILJAN, ICELAND NATIONAL TV