Touch: A Novel

About this book

The inspiration for a film directed written and produced by Baltasar Kormkur co-written by Olaf Olafsson. "Delicate absorbing...as satisfying as it is moving." Vogue A mesmerizing panoramic story of 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 love story and an absorbing mystery Touch delves 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 by acclaimed author Olaf Olafsson Touch is a stunning tribute to the weight of history and the complexities of the human heart.