17-year-old Aksel Morander encounters Amalie and it proves a turning
point in his life. Not only does he fall in love for the first time but
is introduced to a world unfamiliar and unconventional, that places
everything around him in a new light. Finding himself raised up from the
loneliness and darkness of what has gone before, he is forced to
reassess all he holds dear as he is initiated into what makes life worth
living. But jealousy and fear of abandonment lurk in the shadow of this
first love.
An intense novel about loneliness and agonizing passion, employing a
reverse chronology, that moves toward a fateful beginning.