Men Falling (Innbundet)

Author:

Ellen Sofie Lauritzen

Norwegian title: Menn som faller
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2025
Pages: 368
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
ISBN/EAN: 9788202800161
Overview Menn som faller

He is finally dead. The brilliant writer, the master manipulator. The man convicted of rape, then acquitted. Now, collapsed on the street and instantly dead. For journalist Selna Bru, this incident is the best birthday gift she could have asked for.

RT Remi destroyed her career, branding her a plagiarist and left her with nothing. With his death, she is given the chance to reclaim her name and expose the world that protected him. But as she digs deeper, she finds herself trapped in a web of power, lies, and deceit. Suddenly she finds herself not just an observer, but also a player.

Looking for love in all the wrong places, Selna might also fall victim to her own weaknesses, blinding her when she needs to be at her very sharpest.

Men Falling
is a suspenseful novel about power, truth and the fine line between justice and revenge. Blending psychological intrigue, MeToo revelations, and crime elements, it pulls the reader into a world where no one are really who they seem.

[Men Falling is] a novel that satirises the ‘culture man’ and literary institutions, complicating the Manichaeism of crime fiction. It's crime fiction for women who have studied literature. … [The book] is an enjoyable depiction of a dusty, romanticised environment and an industry that ultimately answers to the bottom line, and where everyone is governed by recognition, love, and money. If there's a moral here, it might be this: The freelancer is always an easy target.
BOKMAGASINET

First and foremost, this is an exuberant, Sex and the City-esque story about a woman who wants to freeze her eggs and stop messing around, but who still usually gets drunk. … It is equally a cheerful mockery of the media industry and how publishers disregard ethical objections in their desperate quest to launch the most scandalous celebrity books.
MORGENBLADET

... [the novel can] undoubtedly add insight into how complex they are, the stories of the women who are victims of sexual abuse, how much belief and doubt and self-loathing they can experience along the way, with partly foggy memories of what was done to them. In this way, the novel is good, as it never simplifies or trivialises, rather it problematises, while it is takes meetoo completely seriously.
SAMTIDEN

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Reviews Menn som faller

Metoo bit for bit 27.05.2025

«Medrivende skrevet og aktuell»
«denne romanen speiler vår tid og nyhetsbildet. Her hviler metoo tungt over sidene.»

«boka (er) god, fordi den ikke forenkler og banaliserer, men snarere problematiserer, samtidig som den tar metoo fullstendig på alvor.»

Espen Grønlie, Samtiden

Forbrytelse og straff 03.05.2025

«Ellen Sofie Lauritzens metooroman er en fornøyelig nesten-krim for litt.vit-segmentet.»

«Romanen er en fornøyelig skildring av et støvete, romantisert miljø og en bransje som i siste instans svarer til bunnlinja, og der alle er styrt av anerkjennelse, kjærlighet og penger.»

Maia Nordsteien Nielsen, Klassekampen

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Author Ellen Sofie Lauritzen

Ellen Sofie Lauritzen (b. 1985) is a journalist and a literary critic, and has also worked in the publishing industry. She has written a non-fiction book and a children’s book, and made her fiction debut in 2025 with Men Falling.

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Foreign rights
Denmark

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