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Jon, who is losing his wife to another man, is trying to understand what happened to his Great Love, by working, painfully, to see the story from her perspective. It begins as he asks her: "Can you tell me about us?" As he looks to his past and within himself, he begins to question the conventions of masculinity and femininity, understanding himself uncommonly as a man who challenges the male role--he's deeply embedded in family life, and identifies as sensitive, vulnerable, and nurturing. And finally, in an effort to understand how his wife could fall in love with someone else, he attempts an ultimate act of empathy: to tell the story from…

In his struggle to understand what has happened to his family, how his wife could fall in love with another man after twenty happy years, Jon attempts to tell the story of the painful collapse of his marriage, but from her point of view. He tries to get inside her head, to see it all as she did, all the while knowing that he can never really achieve this, and that his efforts reveal more projection than insight. How can one truly know another person? How much of what we think is love, is just a construct? Is it possible to find – and maintain – the great love we long for? Gulliksen explores these questions, turning them over again and…

Dette er en kjærlighetshistorie av i dag, en fortelling om et moderne samliv. Den handler om Hun og Han og livet de har sammen. Alt går bra, inntil det plutselig ikke går lenger, hva var det som hendte? Romanen undersøker om det er mulig å forstå hva som skjer når noen slutter å elske hverandre. Om det er mulig å forstå kjærligheten ¿ og hva den gjør med oss. En mann forsøker å skjønne hvordan ekteskapet hans kunne gå i stykker, når han og konen elsket hverandre så sterkt og ville hverandre så vel. Han prøver å finne ut hva som gikk galt, ved å granske alle årene de har hatt sammen som om han var henne.