Frode Grytten appeared on the Norwegian literary scene in 1983, and gained a wider world audience is 1999, when he publishes the cult book "Song of the Beehive". In exceptional to the acclaimed book "Rooms by the Sea, Rooms in the City" (2008), Grytten it follows the same pattern again: it sets up a framework, a theme, which it then elaborates on in various ways variations.