Translated into English at last, this portrait of a man appalled by modernity and desperate to get back to nature is brimming with Nordic weltschmerz T-O-M. The initials of Tomas Olsen Myrbråten, the narrator in Thure Erik Lund’s The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch, spell out the Norwegian w...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/21/the-mystery-of-what-befell-in-the-ditch-by-thure-erik-lund-review-is-this-the-greatest-living-norwegian-writer)