Publisher's Synopsis
Lasse Thornquist and the 13 years older Hans Emil Brochmann meet by happenstance. They get together for conversations. One of them talks, the other mostly listens. Hans is battling cancer and knows he has little time left to live. Over the course of their conversations, they touch upon childhood memories, spiritual experiences, philosophical questions, and how to cope with life with all its ups and downs. Freedom, which people are so concerned about today, does not consist in avoiding discomfort and suffering at all cost. The deepest experience of freedom consists in being able to find it in the midst of pain, suffering, injustice, and trials. Such a freedom has healing effects.
Love in the Time of Indifference is a haunting book of reminiscences, a love letter to life and all its hardships, and to the mystery we call life. New interpretations of Norwegian folk tales and the myth of the Norse god Vidar sheds further light on the matter at hand. It teaches us how to live and love here and now, faced with an uncertain future. Lars Michael Naess was born in 1947 and has among other things worked as a teacher, helping young people with substance abuse problems, and as a farmer at a collective. The contemplative, pondering things in silence, has always been important to him. This book is the result of decades of contemplative work.
