Everything you need to understand or teach Before I Burn by Gaute Heivoll.
Before I Burn by Gaute Heivoll tells two stories that begin some thirty years apart; but, in the end, they intersect. Although the book is considered a novel because there are elements of the story that are dramatized and imagined, it is based on actual events in the lives of real people.
Gaute Heivoll was born in a rural community in southern Norway. The idyllic countryside was dotted with dense woods...