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Memories of choking
Literature and Fiction2016 · 120 pp

Memories of choking

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo

In Memories of Choking (Kvelningsminner) we meet people who have to send their loved ones away to institutions, and we follow them in their search to recognise the core value of every human being. Eivind Hofstad Evjemo writes about the big questions of life, death, the tribulations of old age, and the plight of people with multiple handicaps and their relatives trying to make sense of the world. No other author describes the great themes in the struggle of daily life as Eivind Hofstad Evjemo does. "Very few writes this tenderly about sorrow and care that Eivind Hofstad Evjemo does."DAGBLADET "Memories of Chocking become even better upon re-reading, with many rewarding turns of insight and empathy."STAVANGER AFTENBLAD "The Distance of things close"DAG OG TID "One of the best young writers of Norway writes outstanding poetry about the weak and painful parts of the welfare state. (...) This book makes a great impression, increasing by every re-read."KLASSEKAMPEN

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Palace of Lust
Literature and Fiction2016 · 208 pp

Palace of Lust

Olav Starheimsæter

Olav Starheimsæter’s debut novel has a rather unusual focal point, namely The Palace of Lust – an internet forum for people who want to meet others to have sex in different ways, according to their desires. Naturally, such a forum regularly gives rise to various ethical considerations. This could have become tendentious, but it is not so. For Starheimsæter the sex forum is just that, a sex forum. What interests him is the variety of people who are drawn into it. We meet them in critical situations where they have to make tough decisions to survive. What is common to them all is that they are searching for the boundaries of who they are, either to expand them or to see if they can be found at all.

Clearing the Air
Literature and Fiction2016 · 112 pp

Clearing the Air

Päivi Laakso

Päivi, an artist, gets a telephone call from her mother to say that her father is on his deathbed. She hurriedly packs her bags and leaves to be with her father during his final days. The family meet in a hospital in North Finland in an attempt to clear the air and find reconciliation. Laakso takes us through their last days together, with unmistakeable rawness and unsurpassed humour.It takes exactly one hundred pages for Finnish-Norwegian Päivi Laakso to describe a life. A death in the family puts in motion the thoughts about how a life can be lived. This book is a beautiful little novel.NRK Clearing the Air represents a refreshingly crafted and different contribution to Norwegian literatureHAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD More beautiful than realityVirtuously beautiful and efficient, Clearing the air is a fine and precise novel written mostly in short sentences and in present tense. In this way the reality of the book feels like it is happening right now, it quivers and it is real, not just a reference or a translation. You will not find any euphemisms, no tiptoeing around the burning hot topics. The level of precision of the language, combined with the absolutely non-sentimental rendition, makes even the most unappetizing topics fascinating. It is just something that is. A prerequisite. ike time. Or gravitation. The book is quite serious, and serious happenings occur. But the neutral way that it is portrayed makes it at times comical; not least when Päivi in just a few sentences describes her wedding. But this book is neither comedy nor tragedy. It is a piece of outstanding writing, about the small human in endless space.DAG OG TID

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Fool
Literature and Fiction2016 · 64 pp

Fool

Maiken Horn Bolset

The poems in this collection are dramatic explorations of phenomena such as sexuality, love, grief and aggression, expressed through observations, metaphors and aphorisms.Outwardly, people clothe themselves in various states of mind, as if each of them was a different felt shape.The observer talks to herself and to a ‘you’ whom she alternatively trusts and mistrusts. 'This charm-bomb of a debut collection explodes on the reader with lasting effect.'VG 'The combination of plain language and dark elements works perfectly and convincingly.' DAG OG TID'The physicality and humour in Maiken Horn Bolset’s poetic debut provide warm, enriching reading.' KLASSEKAMPEN

The New Moon Days
Literature and Fiction2016 · 56 pp

The New Moon Days

Casper André Lugg

Few people can put intense, existential experiences into words in the way Casper André Lugg does. Nymånedagene is a beautiful collection of poems which show us how renouncing ones, self and all practical considerations leads us nearer to the heart of life.‘My own criteria in assessing the quality of poetry are the capacity to create images in combination with philosophical and perceptive depth and musicality. In my opinion Lugg has all of these. He has the seed for something really big.' This is what one of our leading poets, Steinar Opstad, says about Casper André Lugg. Few writers succeed as Casper André Lugg does in putting acute, existential experiences into words. Casper André Lugg made his debut with Lite rekviem in 2011, followed last year by the collection Dagene er som gress. With Nymånedagene Casper completes what can now be called a trilogy. Casper has been named as one of the young lyricists to look out for in future. He won the Booksellers' Author Stipend in 2016. 'Lugg writes clean-cut poems with clear diction […] He writes very good pictures.'KLASSEKAMPEN 'A thought or experience which can seem obvious enough, but which in Lugg’s hands […] is expressed in poetry which spell-binds me in its elegant simplicity.MORGENBLADET

It Will All Be Different
Literature and Fiction2016 · 432 pp

It Will All Be Different

Eivind Buene

Oppstandelse is a wide-ranging epic novel in two parts. It is about two couples in an open relationship. We meet four more or less equal main characters who all make themselves heard in their own way.This novel is something between a novel of ideas and a psychological study. It starts in the 1980's with a group of friends who find their salvation when they discover shared joy and musical solace within the context of the Pentecostal movement, which they are led to by the main character David's excessively ecstatic and paralysing meeting with The Saviour. David experiences the same excess as an artist and through living in an open relationship where partner-swapping and sexual experimentation are important ingredients.David is married to Vilde, who works as an art historian at the university and who shares David's free sexual boundaries in an apparently harmonious marriage.In part two, David and Vilde have sex with the married couple Kim and Kamilla. Kim is Vilde's former lover. Kamilla has never taken part in such activities before, but is challenged and drawn in by the project's breaking of personal boundaries.Eivind Buene brings out interesting social trends in this novel, which contains shades of both Philip Roth and Michel Houellebecq. 'Oppstandelse by Eivind Buenes is a well written and original novel of ideas … This is good literature, free of moralism and clear answers. Searching and well written.' VÅRT LAND

Pelargonia
Literature and Fiction2016 · 96 pp

Pelargonia

Frederik Svindland

Pelargonia is a novel about the process of growing up rather than a narrative plot. It is a collection of texts and descriptions of a childhood in Norway at the beginning of the 1990s, which now and then opens connections to both youth and young adulthood.‘Svindland enriches the realm of books with literary sensibility, transforming the private nostalgia into a general expression of how our childhood never stops working inside us.’ KLASSEKAMPEN

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Genuine Joys
Literature and Fiction2016 · 88 pp

Genuine Joys

Lars Saabye Christensen

Two of our greatest artists have created their first book together, an exceptionally beautiful book for adults about the joy of small glimpses.‘We have laid bare private life, abandoned our inhibitions and vacuumed every corner to find as many joys as possible. We have succeeded. It is important for us to emphasise that these joys are not ironic; as the title says, they are genuine.’'Lars Saabye Christensen and Stian Holes picturebook for grown ups is a Genuine Joy.' DAGBLADET'[…] a jewel of a picture book for grown-ups.'FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

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Maxim’s Circus
Literature and Fiction2016 · 208 pp

Maxim’s Circus

Siv Wyller

Rolando Maxim was the best circus director of his time. What a pity that he died so many years ago. It was his decision to purchase La Madre Grandiosa – The Ape Woman – which led to Maxim's Circus becoming so famous. When his son, Gregor Maxim, looks round the circus camp, he can't escape the fact that it has declined. After a long winter during which they have tried to squeeze as many performances as possible out of the public in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, they suddenly find themselves weather bound. The cold is penetrating, the snow is drifting down and their reserves are running out. One day they find a man lying unconscious. Gregor very reluctantly agrees to let his sister nurse him. Then things really begin to develop. The story of Maxim's Circus is told in Gregor's cantankerous voice. We learn how La Madre Grandiosa came into the circus and how that changed the dynamics of Gregor's family and ended in disaster. We follow him while spectacular individualism confronts uniform bureaucracy, as he tries to rescue the remnants of a proud tradition in the face of the communist system. We hear the unconscious man's story of the labour camp and why he can't stand the sound of a banjo. And not least, we see humanity finding expression through the defining personalities of the characters – the characters of the circus.

The End of the World as We know it
Literature and Fiction2016 · 288 pp

The End of the World as We know it

Erlend Loe

Doppler is back. After years deep in the woods, Doppler remembers that he has a family. He puts Bongo, the moose, into a kennel for deer and makes his way into Oslo. He is looking forward to seeing his wife and children, but his old house looks strange. On the name labels on the mailbox, his name has been crossed out and a new one put in its place: EGIL HEGEL. Doppler thinks he has reached rock bottom, but his troubles have only just begun. 'Probably this year’s funniest book.'ADRESSEAVISEN 'The End of the World as We Know It is dystopic cultural critique with high entertainment value.'VG 'Loe’s most entertaining novel for a while, and an eventful journey.'DAGENS NÆRLINGSLIV 'Loe’s new novel stands out as the best means of enduring the world as we know it right now.'NRK 'The satire of the last two books is in many ways as before, but the cut seems darker, more rebellious and sharper. Thus Loe becomes even more recklessly funny ...'MORGENBLADET 'And the observations are good. Sharp. The themes Erlend Loe lets him reflect upon are definitely contemporary. A book for our time.' DAGSAVISEN 'The crusade against cleverness and conformity continues.'DAGBLADET 'Awfully funny.'KLASSEKAMPEN 'This book is really entertaining. Doppler’s whimsical turns and apparitions are its strongest feature. … a romantic universe and a character still prominent in Norwegian literary history.'VÅRT LAND 'A fantastic character with a rich selection of qualities.' AKTUELL, LO-MEDIA Rights sold to: CZECH REPUBLIC (Kniha Zlín), DENMARK (Gyldendal), FINLAND (Johnny Kniga), MACEDONIA (Tabernakul), SERBIA (Geopoetica), SLOVAKIA (Premedia), SWEDEN (Alfabeta).

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The Eye Chart
Literature and Fiction2016 · 240 pp

The Eye Chart

Benedicte Alexandra Lie

Synstavle is the story of Silje, who started studying medicine but who now works in a café instead. Her father owns and manages an optometry practice he wants Silje to take over.The story begins when her father dies and Silje and her boyfriend go home for the funeral. This is when Silje eventually discovers the twist in the story. Her father had a sister, Silje's aunt, who was a doctor and who is deceased. What Silje doesn't know is that she took her own life after mismanaging a patient. Her father's motive for not wanting Silje to become a doctor begins to appear in another light.This is a well written, complex and thought-provoking novel.

As Long As Heaven Is Above Earth
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2016 · 224 pp

As Long As Heaven Is Above Earth

Levi Henriksen

'My name is Ruben, I'm 16 years old, and I'm going to die soon.' Thus begins Levi Henriksen's new novel for young people, a bittersweet and moving picture of a young man who has only a short time left to live but who wants to live life to the full. Ruben wants to travel, make his mark on the world, experience a whole phase of youth in a few weeks. But most of all he wants to be with Alona, the finest girl in the class. 'Så lenge himmelen er over jorda might remind some people of John Green’s Paper Towns’ spice, with elements from The Fault in Our Stars. In spite of these at times strong similarities, Henriksen still delivers a compelling story. He manages to portray emotional life from a 16-year-old boy’s perspective in a credible way, and the reader can almost feel the fragile feelings about being terminally ill themselves. Henriksen has created main characters that elevate the story to another level, in which the reader must dig deeply to see the connection in the strong emotions that rule in this book.'VÅRT LAND 'The first, all-consuming crush is especially well-described. The novel is actually free of awkward descriptions, something that is not a given when you’re writing about hormonal 16-year-olds.'DAGBLADET '‘To pull a John Green’ is to write a worthwhile novel about young death. Film and literary history is full of young people who run away, object to things, and drive themselves to death. It’s been done so many times before, but never like this. ... 'Så lenge himmelen er over jorda is a well-written and philosophically grounded narrative. Adults should challenge themselves and their inner creatures of habit to read it. To live the spring. To live the love.'GLÅMDALEN'The plot in this story is so rock-solid that it could hardly fail. (…) This is good literature on several levels. Henriksen is able to hold the reader from start to finish. A painful solemnity stirs beneath the surface throughout the book, but it is more bittersweet than sad. This book is in a rare genre: a love-story about life and death. It is not only beautiful, but also humorous and perceptive, without any hint of banality.'BARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO

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