About the book: 2005 / One of the most striking debuts in Scandinavian prose of recent years, “One Hundred Years of Solitude, as Erlend Lu could have written them,” novel “ Muscat" by the young Norwegian writer Kristin Valla tells the romantic story of Clara Jorgensen, who is consumed by an insatiable wanderlust. On an island off the coast of Venezuela and in a provincial university in a high mountain town, she searches for her true love - and finds.