Noen ting kan bare poesien fange opp. Etter tre bind med medrivende prosa om Oslo og en familie, kommer Saabye Christensen med en diktsamling fra samme by.
Byens bokstaver er en samling med dikt som lar byen synge.
Lars Saabye Christensen is a gifted storyteller, a narrator who is imaginative, but equally down to earth. His realism alternates between poetic image and ingenious incident, conveyed in supple metropolitan language and slang that never smacks of the artificial or forced. His heroes possess a good deal of self-irony. Indeed, critics have drawn parallels with the black humour of Woody Allen. But beneath the liveliness of his portrayal melancholy always lurks in the books. Since his début in 1976 Saabye Christensen has written ten collections of poetry, five collections of short stories and twelve novels. His great break through came with the novel Beatles in 1984. The book store sale of over 200,000 copies of the Norwegian edition has made this one of the greatest commercial successes in Norway, and it was voted the best novel of the last 25 years by Dagbladet's readers in 2006.
Mens vi venter på Byens spor bind 4. En nydelig diktsamling for oss som sjelden leser dikt, men som ikke får nok av Saabye Christensens melankolske og poetiske beskrivelser av Norges eneste by.