Two Books by same author. Novels. Written after 1990. Scandinavian author. Books translated into English. Read about 2005-2011 at Miami Beach Library
Book one is about a single man who goes to the far north (probably in Sweden or Norway) on some sort of vague business venture. The entire book is enveloped in the cold, dark night of the great North. At some point this man meets with an acquaintance. The acquaintance invites the man to sleep with his daughter.
Book two is about a man who dies and goes to some equivalent of heaven, though called by some euphemistic name like perhaps 'the meadows.' People there are pretty quiet, shrouded in white, taking quiet walks. No life there. The man asks if there is any way he can return to life on earth. He is told that there is a way, but he cannot resume any of his earlier life. So I guess that this is a way of saying that he cannot 'go on' living - the being isn't really him. He finds himself as a bartender in an out of the way place.
Book one is about a single man who goes to the far north (probably in Sweden or Norway) on some sort of vague business venture. The entire book is enveloped in the cold, dark night of the great North. At some point this man meets with an acquaintance. The acquaintance invites the man to sleep with his daughter.
Book two is about a man who dies and goes to some equivalent of heaven, though called by some euphemistic name like perhaps 'the meadows.' People there are pretty quiet, shrouded in white, taking quiet walks. No life there. The man asks if there is any way he can return to life on earth. He is told that there is a way, but he cannot resume any of his earlier life. So I guess that this is a way of saying that he cannot 'go on' living - the being isn't really him. He finds himself as a bartender in an out of the way place.