Feliz Navidad (Innbundet)

Author:

Selma Lønning Aarø

Norwegian title: Feliz Navidad
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2024
Pages: 272
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
ISBN/EAN: 9788202845193
Overview Feliz Navidad

Oh Christmas with your joy, oh Christmas with your pain. Oh Christmas with your Spanish beaches, oh Christmas with your brined lamb ribs in suitcases. Oh Christmas with your hunt for swedes, oh Christmas with your demented mother. Oh Christmas with your cactus Santa, oh Christmas with your unreliable family – slaves to their confused, annoying impulses and behaviour.

Protagonist Saga is a theatre director who has decided to arrange the perfect Christmas in Spain. She doesn’t do this without desperation, because her mother suffers from dementia with elements of psychosis and has a habit of running away at the worst of times. Nevertheless, Saga has made up her mind, despite many cautions from a doctor friend. Christmas will be a great. Everyone will have a nice time, celebrating in the usual way and – goddammit – in the absolute nicest way. Granddad and Grandma are in, her crypto millionaire son is in, everyone is in. But challenges present themselves as soon as they arrive. Her mother can’t orientate herself in her new surroundings, the children are out of control, and why does her husband keep jogging to Benidorm?

Feliz Navidad is a humorous novel, but it is also written with fear and trembling and sorrow. It is a book about being a middle-aged woman, an unfaithful husband, a mother who keeps disappearing – and about who we become when things get hard.

«Feliz Navidad is a somewhat comical and painful novel about relationships, and about life hitting you right smack in the face in the middle of Christmas.»
Dagbladet, five/six stars

«... an unsentimental and well-composed Christmas story that both women 50+ and all other readers will find resonate with.»
Bergens Tidende, five/six stars

«... a deeply relatable relationship drama that balances humor with painful emotional undertones.»
VG, five/six stars

«It's both an emotional odyssey and a love elegy at the same time.»
Fredrikstad Blad, five/six stars

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Reviews Feliz Navidad

En juleroman vi faktisk trenger! 27.10.2024

«Det blir hjerteskjærende og humoristisk i Selma Lønning Aarøs realistiske juleroman Feliz Navidad

«... et dypt gjenkjennelig relasjonsdrama som balanserer humor med vonde emosjonelle undertoner.»

«Aarø skriver skarpt, med treffende og finurlige observasjoner om mennesker i ulike former for krise.»

«... portrettet av den demente moren er så fint, skikkelig og rørende gjort.»

«... en sår og tankevekkende roman som er både vond og god å lese.»

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Elin Brend Bjørhei, VG

Verdens verste juleferie 19.11.2024

«På leting etter en juleroman som både underholder og beveger? Selma Lønning Aarøs roman om en skrekkens jul er svaret.»

«Aarø er en festlig forteller, og boka er underholdende og rørende på samme tid.»

«Feliz Navidad er en lett komisk og sår relasjonsroman om å få livet i fleisen, midt i juleferien.»

 
Maya Troberg Djuve, Dagbladet

Klangfull julefortelling 28.10.2024

«Julens ritualer får ny betydning i Selma Lønning Aarøs velkomponerte roman.»

«... en usentimental og velkomponert julefortelling som både kvinner 50+ og alle andre lesere vil kjenne seg igjen.»

 
Gro Jørstad Nilsen, Bergens Tidende

Dette er romanversjonen av «Should I Stay or Should I Go» 24.10.2024

«Feliz Navidad er en vellykket roman. En hissig tekst om et havari i familien.»

«Det er en godt uttenkt og innfølt tekst som sirkler inn det uunngåelige.»

«Både en følelsesodyssé og en kjærlighetselegi på samme tid.»

«Denne romanen er god.»

 
Christen Hvam, Fredriksstad Blad

Underhaldande juleroman 03.12.2024

«Feliz Navidad er ei god julebok.»

«... som underhaldning fungerer ho godt, og ho er òg tidvis både rørande og gripande.»

Mai Lene Fløysvik Hæåk, Stavanger Aftenblad

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Author Selma Lønning Aarø
Selma Lønning Aarø (1972–) originates from Stord on the west coast of Norway. Her debut was the novel The Final Story (Den endelige fortellingen) in 1995, a novel that she won the Cappelen Damm Prize for best debut for.

Selma Lønning Aarø has since written a number books within different genres, both adult and childrens fiction. She has been the editor of SIGNALER, Cappelen Damms anthology of new writing, together with Nils-Øyvind Haagensen, and for years she was a columnist in newspapers like Dagbladet and Klassekampen, well known for her self ironic and dark sense of humour.

Her big breakthrough in Norway came with the novel Do you want another ride? (Vil ni åka mera?) in 2003, a novel that brought her a nomination for the Brage Prize. Her novel I´m coming (Jeg kommer snart) (2013) has been published in Spain, Canada, Germany and Turkey.

Her latest novel is Her Lying Face (Hennes løgnaktige ytre, 2016), where she explores the life of writer Anna Munch and her troublesome obsession for Knut Hamsun.

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