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"A small Norwegian village is shocked - for a month, mysterious criminals at are active at night, burning houses and barns and leaving no residue. "This is madness," - the people whispered in a panic. Thirty years later, the author is returning to his childhood village. He wants to understand what happened in that terrible month of spring 1978. Slowly, he reconstructs the events that were imposed on his childhood memory, and he understand that the fires not only changed the lives of the villagers, they somehow influenced him and his family. His past is haunted, and he seemed to see the flame of fire in the night, again... This psychological detective drama became a Norwegian bestseller, and in 2010 received the prestigious Brage. "Tongues of fire" - one of the most important Norwegian novels of recent years." -- cataloger's translation of publisher's or bookseller's website.