“Waffle Heart” (2005) — the debut of young Norwegian writer Maria Parr, whom critics unanimously call the new Astrid Lindgren. The book has already been published in Sweden, France, Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands, where it received the Silver Griffel award.
In a year in the life of two small residents of the Stepk-Matilda cove — nine-year-old Trille, whose perspective the story follows, and his neighbor and classmate Lena — an unimaginable number of events and adventures fit in: funny, touching, dangerous… The idyllic life on a Norwegian farmstead is disrupted — but not destroyed — by dramatic circumstances. And of course, friendship turns out to be stronger!