Description

In Buzz Aldrin, What Happened for You in Most the Distress?, visitors follow a man who desires to not be adopted, a man who, following a number of individual and professional problems, sees herself laying on the water-soaked street within the desolate, treeless Faroe Countries, populace just a few thousand, a pile of bills in his wallet and no recollection of how he'd become there. From there, Brage Prize-winning writer and playwright Johan Harstad's debut book--formerly posted to great success in eleven nations using its first English-language look in June 2011--tells the tale of Mattias, a thirty-something farmer residing in Stavanger, Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon: the man who had been prepared to stand-in Neil Armstrong's darkness to be able to function, faithfully and humbly, for the success of the Apollo 11 mission. Through Harstad's "delectably gentle but nevertheless impactful writing. . .