Tales of protection - Erik Fosnes Hansen

An eccentric scientist lies dead in his coffin reflecting on the past and his last experiment--collecting random incidents from human history and finding the underlying pattern that connects them. His reveries lead him to tell two other tales--one of a doomed lighthouse keeper on a Swedish island and the other of a rivalry among Renaissance artists--and finally he tells a startling tale from his own youth.
For readers of Michael Ondaatje and Isak Dinesen, Erik Fosnes Hansen's imaginative narration brings an original and searching inquiry into why things happen the way they do and suggests a theory of "seriality"--a half-science about the power of human connections.

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Erik Fosnes Hansen, born in 1965, is the author of Psalm at Journey's End, a number-one bestseller in his native Norway. He lives in Oslo.

PRAISE FOR TALES OF PROTECTION

"As readers, we relax into the author's skillful hands, allowing his luminous writing to carry us, and the tale, along. . . . Remarkable storytelling."-- Los Angeles Times

"Bulges with all the wonderfully strange, arcane information of centuries ago--how to read nautical charts, interpret rock formations, create aquamarine paint or gild a detail on a fresco."-- Newsday