What a beautiful book, with echoes of classical myth and biblical parable! And what profound simplicity throughout! Just three characters (two siblings living alone and a newcomer to their home), always in the same place (a place with broad horizons, next to a lake, with forests nearby). Hege, the sister, will soon be forty and is already starting to count gray hairs. She knits: she makes sweaters, which she then sells. Her brother, Mattis, known to everyone as the Talos Because he's a different boy, three years younger than Hege, and has no job or subsidy. Of course, his questions often reveal the deepest cracks in his sister's conservative mentality. They think he's a complete fool, but, without realizing it, he possesses a kind of almost prophetic, disconcerting wisdom. Near where they live, there are two twin trees, two tremors: Mattis has always believed they represented the two siblings.