earthquake :
The night was spreading its black cloak, and the sky looked like a gigantic female covering her body from head to toe. Mu’ayrid was lying in the complete darkness like a sick cat stretching out its feet in the water and resting its back on the towering mountains, which were like giant sheep headbutting the sky. Nasser stood at The beach, and the wave was combing the strands of sand wet with water and salt, and close to his head was the throat of a seagull that had perhaps lost its way to shelter, and its voice had a hoarseness resembling the voice of an old man sick with a cough.
With a suitcase in hand, and the wrap in which her daughter Kaya sleeps on her back, Ingrid Barrowe sets off from the island that bears her name, on a journey across Norway to search for her child's father. And everywhere you go, you ask one question: Does anyone remember a Russian who fled across the mountain during the last winter before the war ended?
During her journey, and through her meetings with many people, Ingrid realizes that war leaves its scars on people, but peace also works with memory. Will you find the person you are looking for? How well does she really know about the man she's risking everything to find?
"The Eyes of Rigel" is a poetic and harsh story about a post-war people, and about people's destinies, told from the perspective of an extraordinary woman who slowly discovers that the truth is the first casualty of peace.
