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«Rick» by Norwegian writer, composer and pianist Kjetil Bjornstad is a sensual and frank novel about a fierce passion for music and dedication to the profession. Sometimes it seems that the music is flowing right between the lines: Brahms and Joni Mitchell, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin. The protagonist of the novel, eighteen-year-old Axel Winding, is also striving to find his own individuality in music and his own unique sound.

The talented and ambitious pianist is preparing for his debut concert. He is mourning the death of his first love, Anja, and at the same time realises that he is very attracted to Anja's mother, Marianne. The suffering of loss brings the young man and the mature woman closer together, but Axel is haunted by the pangs of choice and a moral dilemma that seems to be eating away at him from the inside.

«The River» is the sequel to Kjetil Björnstad's novel «To the Music».