"Into the depths of years gone by" by Jens Christian Grøndahl: reunions as night falls

"We are still here, deep in the past years." Because the past years are not really past, because they are always passing, because we find ourselves "on the other side of all the years when his life and mine had followed separate paths" , because "it was the same time that had continued its course and had finally caught up with us" . The first quote comes from the very beginning of the novel, the second from more than a hundred pages later and the third is on the last page. The novel is Deep in the Lost Years , by the Danish Jens Christian Grøndahl, born in 1959, author, among others, of Sounds of the Heart , Virginia , Four Days in March ,