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The New Season
Literature and Fiction2022 · 288 pp

The New Season

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo

The great new novel about Norway, love and life as a farmer, and moving into a new time The farmer has always been there. But what happens when the world, society, and climate changes – in ways that make it difficult to survive? Can the farmer still cultivate, create, build, live? Hans Junior has a majority share to the farm somewhere along the coast of Norway. Together with Hans Senior, he runs it as a dairy farm. But when his father becomes ill, and later passes away, he ends up being responsible on his own. A single man in the house and a lot of animals in the barn. One day the agricultural inspector Sylvi stops by to inspect the farming and animal welfare. She gets a cup of coffee when she’s about to drive away, as well as an invite for a ride on his boat. Hans Junior has an island he usually goes out to, where witchcraft was reportedly practiced in earlier times. Sylvi returns to the farm several times, and after a fairly short time she moves in. When she looks at Hans, she thinks: “There is my husband.” Both have always longed to belong to another human, and on the beautiful farm by the sea they experience a strong connection. The cows in the barn start changing their behaviour, the Sitka spruce between the farm and the sea grows tighter – the nature is changing in challenging ways, and Sylvi and Hans do what they can. Sylvi is affected by an unexplainable illness and goes to their neighbour Siriporn, who’s just arrived from Thailand and offers massages from a room at the farm. Siriporn and Johan’s property borders ancient monastery ruins, and Siriporn has big plans for alternative operations. The New Season contains lots of drama, is full of the sea, death and love, humans, and pets. The novel is moving and evocative. The mixture of realism and something close to apocalyptic is something truly unique. The world is changing, sometimes in ways we can barely imagine. The starting point for The New Season is traditionally Norwegian and classic, but the novel is simultaneously innovative – it explores how well-known landscapes are changed by the times we live in. All of this viewed through the gazes of two beautiful humans doing what they can to survive. The New Season is the first title of a planned trilogy.REVIEWS The curse of the Sitka spruce«Hofstad Evjemo writes well. In a tactile manner. It smells strongly in the dairy building, the fireweed looms outside the windows. At the absence of rain, you can feel the thirst scrape your palate. (…) It’s told in a lively manner, with drive in its sentences. (…) it’s a joy to read The New Season. A novel which shines a particularly warning and especially important light on humans overstepping on nature. Because there will be a price to pay, as we all know. And the new season, where did it go? Well, it will come to us all, if it’s not already here.»BOK365.NOFive/Six stars Practical farming for the apocalypse«… timeless picture of the apocalypse, which also holds mythical qualities. (…) Some of these renderings are close to the striking horror which can be found in the novels of Cormac McCarthy, without ever losing the work and days of the farmer from sight.»MORGENBLADET A gem of a novel«The New Season is a highlight among this autumn’s titles, and will be remembered as one of the best Norwegian novels of the year.»ADRESSEAVISAFive/Six stars«The story flows calmly along, interspersed with glimmers of poetry and humour. It's all kept with tight, literary reins.»DAGSAVISEN«Beautiful and gripping novel about everyday heroism.»STAVANGER AFTENBLADFive/Six stars

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The last potato dumpling
Literature and Fiction2022 · 104 pp

The last potato dumpling

Arild Rossebø

One day we will all die. Generally, our parents die before us. Sometimes they die suddenly, sometimes we get the chance to say goodbye. Sometimes thedying person does not talk about the fact that it will soon be over. Even one’s own family sometimes won’t say that it is the end. Sometimes in life, ones’ father may be dead without you knowing. In Arild Rossebø’s debut novel The Last Potato Dumpling we get to know a grown son – who, in the beginning of the book, follows his mother through her last days, before we later see him in his father’s funeral. Within a short period of time, both his parents are gone. But his father actually disappeared many years ago. The Last Potato Dumpling is the story about a family and everything that happened when the family was dissolved. It is also a story about food and traditions, about being a little boy and a grown man. I was getting my head around the situation: A person in Haugesund tells my aunt on my mothers side who calls my uncle on my mothers side in Stavanger who calls me in Madrid. Three steps before the son. Arild Rossebø´s tight novel about belonging somewhere is equally funny and emotionally charged. The key to stories like this oneoften lies in defining scenes that manage to tie the threads together effectively. Rossebø masters this format well. VÅRT LAND

Where White Lilies Grow
Literature and Fiction2022 · 288 pp

Where White Lilies Grow

Jorid Mathiassen

After a devastating break-up, Linnea is aching to get out of Oslo and start over someplace else. When Linnea’s best friend offers to let her stay in an old house in Northern Norway, set on a small island, Linnea finds herself packing her bags. The big house with a beautiful garden belonged to her friend’s great-aunt Marie, who lived there in solitude until her recent death. Linnea has no idea what awaits her when she arrives on the windy little island in the pitch-black of a stormy winter evening. But one day, she stumbles upon a small clock that leads her to discover a dramatic story. It has to do with Marie’s past, and why she lived all by herself for so many years. The storyline plays out across two periods of time, but as Linnea discovers more about Marie's dramatic past, her own life will also take a new turn. Where White Lilies Grow is a beautiful, breathtaking story about the brutality of war and the power of lifelong love.

Inspired by the Blood Road in Northern Norway from WW2
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I’m the One Who Can Help You
Literature and Fiction2022 · 320 pp

I’m the One Who Can Help You

Kjersti Halvorsen

Psychologist Edvin works at the Kvervel Palace. He is engaged and soon to be a father for the first time. One day, he gets a new patient, André. Edvin knows him from his childhood but hesitates to tell his boss about their relationship. He is ashamed and unable to say more than ‘we went to school together’, which really doesn’t cover it. Edvin was bullied, and André was the bully. Now they have to deal with each other on a daily basis.Why did André start taking drugs? Did Edvin have anything to do with what happened? Why was life so cruel to André but kind to Edvin? Or haslife been kind to him? Kjersti Halvorsen writes about complicated topics such as power, addiction, revenge and reconciliation in an entertaining way.

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Det som går tapt
Literature and Fiction2022 · 272 pp

Det som går tapt

Bernhard Ellefsen

The climate crisis often evokes feelings of pessimism, but it also drives people to demand political change. What Will Be Lost highlights one of the most important things we can all do in the current situation: read. Through this book, we are invited on a journey through nature and literature, to learn about how, together, they can educate us. On a mission to investigate how travel and nature literature can influence us, the way Bernhard Ellefsen writes about such books is engaging. His writing seeks to understand how this literature could help all of us to comprehend the new, frightening world of which we live. What Will Be Lost is a book about literature and nature, about how one can help us to see and understand the other.

Suit and tie
Literature and Fiction2022 · 208 pp

Suit and tie

Aksel Selmer

Willy lost his mother one year ago. He was the one who found her dead by the bottom of the stairs to the basement. He misses her intensely. He’s still not the boy his father wanted him to be. Father wanted Willy to become just as dedicated a clothing director as he is. Therefore, he drives Willy to an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. That’s where he will become strong and independent, that’s where he will become a man. Willy soon discovers that the school is not his style. Finally, back home in his small town, his days become a fight to please father, to please his surroundings, to find his place in school, to find friends, to find himself, to survive. Suit and Tie is a strong and captivating story about loneliness, longing, and identity. It’s a standalone follow-up to Knife and Fork (2002) which excited both critics and readers, also in Denmark, and was considered by many to be the author’s breakout novel.

Greenhouse Nights
Literature and Fiction2022 · 176 pp

Greenhouse Nights

Tom Ingar Eliassen

Greenhouse Nights is a short story collection about the demanding love between people that are changing, that are searching, sometimes for a place to be alone but just as often looking for connection with others. They revolve around the revealing moments where everything is at stake. They are about surviving, holding on or letting go. These things can be both upsetting and beautiful, difficult and simple, but deep down they are unavoidable. A married couple finds solace by driving down to the fjord. A woman meets her lover at a pub. They drink beer and watch downhill skiing on the television while waiting for her husband. Someone remembers a midnight bath in Saint-Tropez.A family is dissolved and the husband escapes into a water park. The lights of a fair ground lights up the bedroom of a man who has fallen silent. It is both harrowing and beautiful, hard and simple. We meet ourselves in the great loneliness where everything is lost or won. And it moves us, weather we want it to or not.

Ego
Literature and Fiction2022 · 160 pp

Ego

Ebba Eiring

What happens between people when someone dies, gets married, ventures out on a sailing trip for two, finds themselves responsible for a stepchild, jumps on a train some place on the other side of the world, or when someone returns to their old stomping grounds and childhood home, after years of being away? These short stories explore the nature of close relationships, those between: flatmates, best friends, parents and children, partners, siblings. Ebba Eiring writes astutely about those that can fall apart, and those that may just stand the test of time. His girlfriend has left, and the young man is standing alone in his apartment wearing sweatpants, with a withering avocado plant and quite some aggression he needs to vent. On his way to the store, he meets again the girl who many years ago was standing at the bus stop, suitcase packed, getting away from the village. Siv would like to have Martin all to herself, be his girlfriend, have sex on the sofa or the kitchen counter just when they feel like it. But every other week Vilde is there. Vilde is Martins little daughter, and with her there everything is different. Awkward and weird. Siv wants to be a good bonus mom, but on the inside, she is a grumpy bitch. Ebba Eiring writes with sharp wit about things that might be broken, and things that might last.

Dear Ditch
Literature and Fiction2022 · 184 pp

Dear Ditch

Gro Dahle

Dear Ditch is a collection of poetry about the municipality. With a distinctive warmth and humanism Gro Dahle writes about humans, animals, and landscapes, while displaying failure and deficiencies, failed politics, both well-meaning and calculated. And hope! Somewhere a line must be drawn, says the municipality. Because somewhere the municipality must begin. The term “municipality” used to be a fairly dry word, but when so many municipalities in Norway were combined in 2020 it became loaded with emotions, engagement, new content. In this collection of poetry, we meet the local GP, the principal, the janitor, the hairdresser, the badger, the maple tree, the mayor, the buildings in the area, the roads and the pipes – and the dead.

Coloured, Stained, Now
Literature and Fiction2022 · 104 pp

Coloured, Stained, Now

Eira Søyseth

Who are we in relation to others, to our family? What does sizes such as heritage and family matter? In the poetry collection Coloured, Stained, Nowit’s all about understanding oneself as part of generations of humans, generational heritage and traces, “mother lines” as one of the poems put it. But this is also a feminist collection of poetry about being a young woman today; about concentration and distractions, about the intrusive, all-consuming, intense world where one is supposed to find one’s place. In Coloured, Stained, Now there’s a narrator with ink on her fingers. She views herself but is also being viewed. She seeks to understand herself in the chaotic present, but is discoloured and stained by her past and present, by family and stares, both others and her own. Which external parts do you have to explore to find your inner self? In the middle of a summer full of lilacs, beer and falling in love, a conversation, in the middle of her own birth. She’s in the middle of all the adhesive, sticky and glittery which makes up the now, in the middle of something coloured and stained.

Fifteen years
Literature and Fiction2022 · 192 pp

Fifteen years

Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth has written a stunning and insightful book about one of the most important events in a human’s life – becoming an adult and growing independent, even when it hurts others. There is a rhythm in Paula’s life – the meals at the table at home, going skiing in the wilderness with hot toddy and icy breath, the summers at the cabin in Østfold, raspberry bushes and cold-water swimming, the visits to grandma on the West Coast – a rhythm which offers her safety and clarity throughout her childhood. Mother, father, sister, and brother in their little house are the most important people in her life. And then there is Karen, her best friend. The calm is shattered the summer that Paula discovers the pile of letters her mother has written to grandma. The life her mother describes in the letters is unrecognisable: It says her sister Elisabet performed well in her exams, while in reality she failed them; it says that Elisabet sung a solo at the Christmas recital, which she did not; and it says that the father has been promoted to the head of his office. Paula is barely mentioned. Her mother’s pretense is a shock to Paula, who is now surrounded by the lies of an adult’s making. How should she relate to her mother? Who can she be in the family now? Paula is on the edge of becoming a teenager, and the world is opening up before her as both a terrible and wonderful place. She doesn’t want to believe in the god her mother pretends she believes in. She doesn’t want to start lying about her life. Vigdis Hjorth once again writes about a young life, like she’s done previously in amongst others the novel Third Person Singular, even if Paula’s life is significantly different from Hulda Kråkefjær’s. The portrayal of Paula’s childhood and youth may also bring your thoughts to the powerful childhood depictions of Tove Ditlevsen and Tove Jansson. We believe this novel will be read with great joy for many decades. A future classic.NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE PRIZE 2022Reviews«... a beautiful coming-of-age novel about existenstial anxiety and the rebellion against conventions.»Dagbladet *****«... this will go straight to the heart to most who has once been 15 years old.»Adresseavisen *****«The language is also unmistakably Hjorthian where it trickles away like a steep stream during the spring thaw.»BT, *****«... a riveting story.»Stavanger Aftenblad, *****«What everyone wants to know, of course, is if this is Hjorth at her best. Yes, I think this is Hjorth at her best.»Aftenposten«When it comes down to it, Vigdis Hjorth knows how to write atmosphere and family relations.»VG«Hjorth is not afraid to appear heartfelt when she's describing the moment where a teenager discovers that the world is not only wonderful, but also difficult.»NRK«... the author is in complete control of the language, the rhythm, the repetitions and iterations and everything that creates energy – in contrast to calmer, lighter sections, especially situations where Paula seeks and communicates with the nature around her.»Dagsavisen«Fifteen years is [Vigdis Hjorth's] most well-written novel yet.»Morgenbladet«Vigdis Hjorth does it again.»Information, Denmark«Fifteen Years in all its deft brevity (188 pages, not a word too much, not a word too little) is simultaneously a fully developed portrait of a girl and an existential novel about finding one's own core. It is all written with a linguistic excess that makes every sentence shine with prosaic care, and on almost every page Vigdis Hjorth trumps through points or formulations that are worth dwelling on.»Weekendavisen, Denmark«Vigdis Hjorth once again succeeds at depicting existential issues so that it hurts, but with a characteristic humor that characterizes the authorship.» Litteratursiden, Denmark«On the list of recommended books that dig and gnaw at the eternally fascinating mind of a young girl, one can safely write Vigdis Hjorth's novel about Paula.»Politiken, Denmark«... Vigdis Hjort's gaze at the family as an institution is exactly as penetrating as it usually is, and she mercilessly peels away all the notions and narratives that we falsely and painstakinglybuild around us.»Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmark«The trump card of the novel is that Vigdis Hjorth has made her protagonist extremely reflective about her positioning in the family landscape. Along the way, she fights a silent struggle for liberation to become an independent young woman through gifted musings and considerations. It is written so convincingly that as a reader I was completely absorbed by the reality that unfolds inside the mind of a very young woman.»Berlingske, Denmark «Vigdis Hjorth writes with an unusual nerve and intensity.»Dagens Nyheter, Sweden «SO INTENSELY mundane is life in the first thirty pages of the novel that it is barely possible to breathe»ETC, Sweden «Vigdis Hjorth's new novel Fifteen Years may be one of her strongest»FOKUS, Sweden «Masterly!»Norrländska Socialdemokraten, Sweden «It's so cleverly done. Vigdis Hjorth has never been better than she is in Fifteen Years.» Barometern, Sweden

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Ebbs & Flows
Literature and Fiction2022 · 240 pp

Ebbs & Flows

Kristian S. Hæggernes

To ten-year-old Daniel the summer holidays at the family’s cabin by the sea is one of the highlights of the year. There he can safely play with his Lego without other children making fun of him, and he gets to spend a lot of time with his grandpa, who he hasn’t seen much this year since his grandpa has been very ill. His big sister and cousins are sleeping in a tent in the garden. They’re preoccupied with the handsome boy at the gas station and live in a different world from Daniel, a world he isn’t very curious about anyway. He’s more interested in his Lego-people, who have travelled from the castle they live in in his room, to explore the forest around the cabin. But this summer there are boys around his own age in the neighbouring cabin. And a little girl is stranded on a reef and must be rescued. Daniel prefers being on the water over being in the water. But why does his mother yell at his grandpa when he’s going for a swim? And is Daniel allowed to adopt the cat a woman asks if he wants? Ebbs & Flows is a novel about the possibilities and limitations of childhood, and about the incipient realisation that it can’t last forever.