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2000s: Can you ever really shed your skin?
Reptile Memoirs
What you need to know before your trail
Liv has a lot of secrets. Late one night, in the aftermath of a party in the apartment she shares with two friends in Ålesund, she sees a python on a TV nature show and becomes obsessed with the idea of buying a snake as a pet. Soon Nero, a baby Burmese python, becomes the apartment’s fourth roommate.T hirteen years later, in the nearby town of Kristiansund, Mariam Lind goes on a shopping trip with her eleven-year-old daughter, Iben. Following an argument Mariam storms off, expecting her young daughter to make her own way home . . . but she never does.
Detective Roe Olsvik, new to the Kristiansund police department, is assigned to the case of Iben’s disappearance.
Travel Guide
Ålesund, Norway and snakes
This is an atmospheric novel set in a small Norwegian village. The themes are new beginnings, water, new life, snakes and shedding skins.
Ålesund
The town is a sea port and is noted for its concentration of Art Nouveau architecture. A part of the town was originally known as Kaupangen Borgund. The Old Norse word kaupang means “marketplace” or “town”, thus the market town for Borgund. The first part of the name in old Norwegian is the plural genitive case of áll which means “eel” and the last element is sund which means “strait” or “sound”.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Reptile Memoirs
Destination/Location: Norway Author: Silje Ulstein Departure: 2000s
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