Another book I read and re-read all the time across the years is Mysteries by Knut Hansum. From the start, you are hooked by the highly unusual, eccentric character of the hero, and you just know that everything in the story is going to take you along different, surprising paths that you will be delighted to explore. Nagel is a stranger arriving in a little village of Norway, dressed in a bright yellow suit, carrying only a violin case.
From there follows the most captivating, strange and poetic story. He falls in love of course with a young woman, already engaged. But nothing is as you expect in this most subtle and magic novel. 'Mysteries' is so the right title for it. It leaves with a taste of mystery, of a story somehow told at another level that you can not quite grasped. This is the ultimate book to read and re-read, as each time something of its essence eludes you, and you remain spellbound...
