Hobo's advent calendar 2008
December 21
I stopped outside Tanum, the bookstore, looking in at the window-display. All the latest detective novels were there crammed in next to the cookbooks by celebrity cooks and other people who claimed they knew something about cooking. There was no serious literary fiction in sight, although the Norwegian Dictionary had been given its own little corner, no doubt on account of the fact that it was the start of the new school year. With a shake of my head, I carried on.
"The Scoundrel Days of Hobo Highbrow" (p.20)
