Book cover for Don't Leave Me by Stig Saeterbakken

Don't Leave Me

Stig Saeterbakken
2016 Released
209 Pages
3-4 Hours
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Dalkey Archive PressISBN 9781564788474
Translated by Sean Kinsella
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.

Stig Saeterbakken

Stig Saeterbakken (1966 2012) was one of Norway s most acclaimed contemporary writers. His novels include Through the Night and Siamese (also published by Dalkey Archive).

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Sean Kinsella

Translated by

Sean Kinsella was born in Ireland and holds an MPhil in literary translation from Trinity College, Dublin. He has previously translated work by Frode Grytten and Bjarte Breiteig into English, and currently resides in Norway with his wife and two daughters.

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