An inquiry into violence in Norway. Kjetil Tuestad lives in the village of Hommersk an area of Norway transformed by the oil boom. Termin begins with a moment of violence and goes on to chart the movements of Tuestads lonely, fragmented and troubled life for over 20 years. Against a backdrop of economic instability and flux in the labour market, our narrator details his existence in West Norway and the occasional occurrences of violence in the town with equal sobriety. His relationships are distant and fleeting, both private and professional. Its a story of anonymity, using the kind of didactic analysis youd find
