Seven meanings in life. The threads that connect

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

NORLA Selected Title

Syv meninger med livet
Kagge Forlag 2022
Non-Fiction / Essay
75000 Words
Full English manuscript available

Product sheet (PDF)

Syv meninger med livet 9788248929680

SELECTED TITLE BY NORLA – extensive translation grants available

The meanings in life are sustainable, climate-neutral and often free. They consist in relationships.

The myriad invisible threads that connect us humans to each other, but also to everything around us, form a vast and ever expanding tapestry, enabling each of us to add our tiny voice to the great planetary choir that stretches back in time and forth in space. This is a book about these threads and how they make human lives meaningful.
The meanings in life are sustainable, climate-neutral and often free. They consist in relationships. After finishing the first draft of this book, the author realised that what he had done was to compose a long essay about the threads that connect us humans to each other, and also to everything around us. Together, these filaments create an immense tapestry, a meshwork that enables each of us to be a tiny voice in a great planetary choir that stretches back in time and forth in space. These threads are what makes life meaningful, and the book will show you why and how.
The book was a best seller in Norway from the moment it was published in Norway autumn 2022.

First meaning: Relationships,Second meaning: Scarcity,Third meaning: Dreams,
Fourth meaning: Slow time, Fifth meaning: Moments, Sixth meaning: Balance
Seventh meaning: Severing the threads

Foreign rights

Gilbut Publishing, Korea
Kamicose, Italy
EC Edition, Denmark
Oxygen Publishing, World Arabic