Oh Barcelona

Oh Barcelona


Mrs Saxe accepts the invitation on the glowing tray. “Come to Barcelona”. Soon after she is alone, her passport and money stolen.


The survival of the fittest is the name of the game even here, Mrs Saxe thinks. She is 75, still able to walk and talk, even bicycle if need be. However, the old lady wants her identity back, both literally and in a psychological sense.


Fight for everything you hold dear, die if you have to, she hums. Die? No, not now. First she wants to become the person she once was, the person she is and the person she can become in her encounters with others.


Inside a glass enclosure a clock ticks towards an inevitable decision. Mrs Saxe glances at the police officer. Sweat trickles down her back, behind her scalp tinnitus pounds like a crackling machine What now?

Come join Mrs Saxe`s strange journey in the novel Oh Barcelona.

Rigmor Solem is born in Trondheim, Norway. ( 1941 ) She has worked as a teacher, guide, in language consulting, written short stories, textbooks for young children and young adults. She has also published 5 fiction ebooks.