Beatles (Beatles) was Lars Saabye Christensen’s great break through novel. It was released in 1984 and soon became one of the most beloved books in Norwegian publishing history. The four boys, Gunnar, Seb, Ola and Kim grow up in Oslo in the 1960ies, with the Beatles as their idols and semi-gods. From the innocence of childhood we follow their formative years as teenagers until realty bites them in their early twenties – in a pattern not far from Beatles’ music.
The book store sale of over 200,000 copies of the Norwegian edition has made this one of the greatest commercial successes in Norway, and it was voted the best novel throughout the last 25 years by Norwegian readers in 2006.