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Water Lily of the Wreck
Literature and Fiction2021 · 88 pp

Water Lily of the Wreck

Charlotte Louise Vaillot Knudsen

With uncommon playfulness, Vaillot Knudsen combines wavy oceanography, volcanic activity, stabbing (extinct) animals, mysterious minerals, eroticism and spirited growths. An I and a you find themselves in a rocking boat, surrounded by a strange and sensuous world with jazzy soundscapes and marbled northern lights – and beyond it yet another sphere, with quivering heavenly bodies and marvellously meandering eternities. The poems move through time and space in wild eruption, transforming and peeking out from odd angles (...) The poems are elegiac about the loss of nature, and manage to present this via a great appetite for flowers, maritime life, stones and joyful sounds (...) Throughout, the vocabulary is skewed and strange yet meaningfully heavy and concrete, in such a way that the writing both begins and ends in the joy of words. (...) The aforementioned joy of words and search for the world’s components lend a great deal of merriment to the poems.KLASSEKAMPENA sing-song journey that equips the reader with a couple of extra senses and several stimulants. Is this how words play nature?KLASSEKAMPEN, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 Exalted plant life An imaginative mix of people and plants (...) In general, the poems emphasise how the earth’s components seep through one another. (...) Botanical names and biological terms are combined with poetic empathy. The images can be more or less esoteric, and one begins to wonder what kind of creative world they spring from. Here, the sensuality that binds the self and the planet occasionally acquires magical qualities.MORGENBLADET Poems bloom like flowers in a park Charlotte Vaillot Knudsen invites us into an expansive poetry park that abounds in lifeforms of all shapes: here you can run free (...) The Poetry Park Knudsen creates seems to be a revival of l'art pour l'art, art as a free space where aspects of mankind, elsewhere oppressed, are given full expression. (...) I only know that the airy feeling of freedom I get from Waterlily of the Wreck is good, and has me wanting to feel it for a long time still.BLA (Bokvennen Litterær Avis)

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Merry Christmas. Where are You?
Literature and Fiction2021 · 80 pp

Merry Christmas. Where are You?

Beate Grimsrud

An amusing and warm-hearted little book about the many Christmas Eves in the author's life. In the first story from 2011, the narrator and her older sister are inside their sleeping bags, dug into sandy hollows in Jordan's Wadi Rum desert – which brings back the memory of childhood Christmases when she shoved disliked presents into a box and, in the summer, buried it in a large hole in the garden. The narrator thought this was the only way to bury nasty memories of unwanted gifts. She insists: “Always give children what they want. And if that cannot be done, help the child to no longer want the impossible.” The book is written in Beate Grimsrud's very special language and expresses her unique views on life. The text is illustrated with photos from her childhood and youth. Charming and personal Christmas stories which most of all are about the joys of having a older sister.DAGSAVISEN A beautiful and strange Christmas book for all sisters in all countries.DAGBLADET

The Boys in the Forest
Literature and Fiction2021 · 288 pp

The Boys in the Forest

Bjørn Olaf Johannessen / Erlend Loe / Per Schreiner

9th April is a bad day for Thorvald: his marriage collapses and the Germans come marching up Oslo’s main street, Karl Johan. Thorvald decides to become a resistance fighter. He finds a cabin in the wood, puts an advert in the paper and sets up the Thorvald Group – a group which has, for various reasons, been overlooked by posterity. One reason may be that they spend more time fixing up the cabin than carrying out sabotage actions.

If I Should Die Some Day
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

If I Should Die Some Day

Åsne Maria Gundersen

A mother has a stroke that robs her of her ability to walk, control her feelings and recall the past. For her daughter, this triggers an avalanche of feelings, thoughts and memories. Why does she fear her mother’s death when she doesn’t need her? In compact, poetic language, this novel tells a story about growing up as next of kin, pushing a stroller in the cemetery and waiting for a death and reconciliation that never seem to arrive.

I Think You’d Like Ulrik
Literature and Fiction2021 · 320 pp

I Think You’d Like Ulrik

Jonas Sundquist

Theodor drifts between seminars and parties, drinks IPA and lives in a dingy bed-sit in Oslo. No one knows he is gay. When he meets Ulrik, he finds the courage to do things he has previously shied away from. It is the start of a double life. I Think You’d Like Ulrik is a rich, entertaining novel of youthful rebellion, about parties, destruction, sex, loneliness and the sense of kinship that can spring up between people who have just turned twenty and left home.

Kintsugi
Literature and Fiction2021 · 304 pp

Kintsugi

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Something beautiful is broken, but you hope to repair it in such a way that it can become even more beautiful than before it shattered. This is what happens in the novel Kintsugi too. Through a series of stories, we learn of a possible reconciliation between settlers and indigenous people. Love conquers all, as they say – religion, skin colour, race. But can we love creatures that belong to a totally different species? Can beings with tails be anything other than animals? Reviews: Language is what makes us human. But it also makes us capable of creating nonhumans. Bringsværd has a good grip on the paradoxes. Kintsugi is an ambitious and in terms of form complex novel, kicking hard at the moralistic apparatus.KLASSEKAMPEN Bringsværd has an idea that things are possible. But that does not take away his ability of seeing the realities we are facing on this planet of ours, with sharp vision. Imagination is the ability to take your thoughts far and wide, but also about deep empathy. If we have the will, we can imagine almost anything. Also when it comes to the mutilation we put upon lives other than our own.MORGENBLADET

Every Day We Shall Be So Brave
Literature and Fiction2021 · 176 pp

Every Day We Shall Be So Brave

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

At home, the boy does everything to help his mother keep going. Because his mother needs to rest. She needs to be alone. But sometimes, his mother relies on him. She forces him to skip school. One day something happens: the boy witnesses the neighbour shooting one of his animals, a cow. They bury the animal together. But if the neighbour can suddenly kill one of his own animals, what else might he be capable of?

The Hearse
Literature and Fiction2021 · 88 pp

The Hearse

Knut Nærum / Karstein Volle

It is Year 81 in a new era. Humans have built new cities. The tallest of all is Utropolis – a place with little space and insatiable energy needs. Where does the energy come from? What becomes of the dead? And what goes on out in the shantytowns? The Hearse is an intricate, exciting graphic novel about people seeking answers and authorities who treat the populace like idiots – all conveyed in Karstein Volle’s unique drawing style.

The Power
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

The Power

Heidi Furre

I can often see it in others. I don’t exactly know how I can see it, because it’s fleeting. It inhabits their face. It’s in their skin, around their mouth, in their eyes. Some women carry the pain in their face. Men too. It’s difficult to pin down, it easily slips away. It defies youth, it defies beauty. I’ve seen it in others since I was a child, before I knew what it was. I’ve seen it in children. I’ve seen it in elderly women. Some days I’ve seen it in myself. In my pores, in my skin tone, in the lines on my face. If I don’t watch out, it seeps through.Liv is a nurse. She takes good care of herself and others. She is a normal person hiding a normal secret. One night, many years ago, she was raped. By a man she willingly followed home. The Power is a novel about power, but also a book about having the power. The Power to move on. Unsafe spacesA thing that I value with Furres writing is how the feelings of her characters are taken seriously. Especially in her two latest novels the specific female experiences, that before might have been dismissed as overly sensitive, is given space and explanation. In The Power the personal experiences are also highly political, without the author turning it into a gender discussion about how men can not relate to the lives of women. Instead, The Power is a concrete tale of the experiences of Liv, a story many women can relate to as we step of the bus late at night and must walk the last stretch home on a dimly lit road.MORGENBLADET A totally normal type of rapeOne out of ten women become victims of rape. (…) With The Power Heidi Furre shows what those statistics actually mean. The topic is harsh and painful, but The Power is also good literature. (…) A novel about rape and the effects it has both on an individual and general level will obviously never by a “nice” feelgood book. But Heidi Furre manages to take good care of the reader none the less in this wise and clear book.DAGBLADET Accurate about the relief of traumaIn Heidi Furre´s hard striking novel The Power a mother of small children is trying to take back the control of her own life. What has happened cannot be undone. And this grey zone rape never ends up in a court of law. But Heidi Furre has found a different sort of relief in her precise sentences. A form that finds the reader.NRK One of this falls most important books.framtida.no

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The Middle Man
Literature and Fiction2021 · 176 pp

The Middle Man

Lars Saabye Christensen

The Middle Man is a dark and humorous satire taking place in the small American town called Karmack. After a series of accidents and deaths, the small town’s own “commission” – consisting of a sheriff, a doctor and a priest – decides to hire a “middle man”. A person in charge of informing family and relatives when an accident occurs. Frank Farrelli is a quiet and sane guy who is seemingly perfect for the job. He undertakes his new duties with enthusiasm and quickly becomes the town’s messenger for bad news. But the pressure from his new job as well as a new thriving romantic connection overwhelms Frank. To ease the burden, he calls in a ‘service’ that ends in a murder, and Frank finds himself stuck in a vicious circle where he is not only the guy who brings bad news, but also the one making them

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But How Can I Cry when the Streets are Ablaze with Flowers
Literature and Fiction2021 · 128 pp

But How Can I Cry when the Streets are Ablaze with Flowers

Stina Vogt

The digital garden on the screen is luminous; improbable plants are crossbred. A daughter hits rock bottom after her mother’s death. She digs deep into the soil of her childhood garden. Her memory is leaky as a sieve. But How Can I Cry when the Streets are Ablaze with Flowers is a poetic tale of three generations of women living under the same roof, where the bonds are strong and childhood is free.

The Neck Will Not Bend
Literature and Fiction2021 · 240 pp

The Neck Will Not Bend

Per Knutsen

Teo has a difficult home life. He loves his mother but loathes his stepfather. Even in the face of experiences that no child should have to cope with, Teo shows defiance and courage. Along the transgressive road to teenage life, he finds able helpers in unexpected places. The Neck Will Not Bend is an intense, raw and powerful novel that surprises the reader by subverting established power relations and sympathies. There is so much at stake in this story – and Teo’s defiance is enough to spark a flame in even the most Covid-weary mind.