Trondheim, Cormac James
Trondheim, Cormac James
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Trondheim

Author: Cormac James

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/06/2024


Synopsis

A son's collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgiveness

In Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby revives his heart, but he remains in a coma from which he may never wake. His mothers rush across the continent to his bedside where they endure the strain of helpless waiting. As the tense hospital vigil continues day after day and they vacillate between extremes of hope, fear, and psychic pain, their troubled relationship is pushed to the edge.

A profound exploration of a family in crisis, Trondheim portrays the way each woman copes with the looming tragedy and the possibility of healing in the wake of a life-altering emergency.

About Cormac James

Cormac James is the author of three novels, including The Surfacing and Trondheim. Born in Cork, Ireland, he is a guest lecturer in psychoanalysis at the University of Montpellier in France.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meike

While you might expect that this is a novel about 20-year-old Erasmus student Pierre in title-giving Trondheim/Norway who suffers a heart attack, is resusciated, and falls into a coma, these events are in fact only a catalyst to offer a portrait of a couple under duress: His mothers are struggling i......more

Alba and Lil married twenty-five years ago and raised three children. As the novel opens in media res, Cormac James places the reader directly into their marriage-on-the-skids. Lil is doing some heavy lifting with boxes; Alba looks on disinterestedly, a bit of contempt in the air. There are so many......more

Goodreads review by Jill

When a tragedy occurs – a college-age son is found lifeless a continent away – the whole concept of time suddenly shifts. There is suddenly no past, no future, no sense of home, and no way forward. There is only the present and each moment assumes an exaggerated significance. Cormac James captures th......more

Goodreads review by Mary

In France, Lil and Alba, mothers to Pierre, Noah, and Maria, are informed by a phone call that Pierre (age 20) has had a cardiac arrest in Trondheim, Norway, and is now in Intensive Care there in an induced coma. “Trondheim”, by Cormac James, is a gripping domestic drama about a couple navigating a l......more

Goodreads review by Saskia

Like with the short stories I've read by James, you can always feel the undercurrent of tension bubbling behind the action. There is as much said in the silences or the unspoken/unwritten text as in the words you read. Trondheim is engaging, sometimes stressful, but always honest. It expresses the co......more