Touch [Movie Tie-in]: A Novel [Paperback]

The inspiration for a film directed, written and produced by Baltasar Korm?kur, co-written by Olaf Olafsson.

Delicate, absorbing...as satisfying as it is moving. ?Vogue

A mesmerizing, panoramic work of literary fiction about one mans search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades before.

When the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to be failing. But an uncanny bolt from the bluea message from Miko Nakamura, a woman whom hed known in the sixties when they were students in Londonboth inspires and rattles him, as he is drawn inexorably back into a love story that has marked him for life. Even as the pandemic upends his world, Kristofer finds himself pulled toward an answer to the mystery of Mikos sudden departure decades before, compelling him to travel to London and Japan as the virus threatens to shut everything down.

A heart-wrenching second chance romance and an absorbing mystery,Touch EPBdelves into the secrets of the past to explore the hidden lives that we all possess, the pain and beauty of our past loves and friendships that continue to leave their mark on us. Searching and lyrically rendered in this decades-spanning story by acclaimed author Olaf Olafsson,Touchis a stunning tribute to the weight of history and the complexities of the human heart.?

Olafsson’s treatment of the vast cultural chasm between Icelander Kristófer, and Miko...brings suspense and heartache to the reader. -Library Journal

Delicate, absorbing...Touchis weighted with questions about love, memory, and intergenerational trauma--reaching a denouement as satisfying as it is moving. -Vogue

Olafsson is writing at the top of his game here — any reader with a taste for novels that gently explore the internal world will find mlãQ