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Sister
Literature and Fiction2016 · 144 pp

Sister

Gro Dahle

'It takes at least two to tolerate a mother,' sighs the narrator in this poetry collection as she longs for a sister. Somebody who just is there, naturally. The particular bond between sisters is perceptively and yearningly described by the only child in the poems.Gro Dahle uses warmth and humour to express the many aspects of being a sister.An ideal gift for a sister or a soulmate. 'Sensual and playful poems about sisters in one of the autumn’s best poetry collections.Gro Dahle has written a heart-warming and thoughtful collection of poems which should be read by everybody who either has or longs for a sister.'BERGENS TIDENDE 'What most characterises Dahle’s style is her sharp eye for both the difficult and the beautiful aspects of everyday life.' DAG OG TID 'The autumn’s poem collection is a glowing tribute to sisterhood.'NRK

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To The Western Ice
Literature and Fiction2016 · 192 pp

To The Western Ice

Tor Even Marthinsen

At the start of the seal-hunting season a sailboat leaves the quay at Tromsø. On board is a young, newly qualified vet on her first tour of inspection for The Fisheries Department. She is alone with a crew of seal-catchers and hunters, and will be with them in the icy wilderness around Greenland for six weeks.The narration in To the Western Ice (Til Vestisen) is vigorous on every page, consistent in style and shocking and uncompromising in content. ‘With the help of subdued language rich with association, and brief, vivid flashbacks to events out at sea in the arctic, the author builds the tension with a sure hand. First and foremost it is the intensity and spare prose that combine to distinguish this novel from others. ... Tor Even Svanes writes in a confident style, developing a well-planned plot in To the Western Ice, a novel that deserves to be read by many.’ VG ‘The book effectively draws the reader into the inspection of Norwegian seal hunting in Greenland. The claustrophobic opening is remarkably good ... Rather than telling the story chronologically, Svanes creates a narrative that provides an uncomfortably clear impression of Mari’s claustrophobia on board the ship as she reacts to the wounding and mistreatment of seal pups. The beginning of the novel leaps back and forth between various periods of time, interspersed with fragmented scenes of an interview taking place after events, and forcing the reader to engage directly with Mari’s own anxiety. It is well-executed. ... An almost faultless novel. The book forces the reader to experience the fear.’ KLASSEKAMPEN “The particularly masculine combination of brutality and feline craftiness is skilfully and ruthlessly described. Combining this psychological warfare with the description of the ship and the sea, Svanes earns a place in the darkest corner of seafaring literature … To the Western Ice is outstandingly well written and offers a concentrated presentation of the almost watertight bulkhead between social classes in a country where amazingly many naïve souls believe that all are alike.” DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ‘He carries the sequences of the plot forward in short sentences, taking the reader with him. Unease takes hold. It is done well, and identification with the main character is supreme. What could have been artificial and affected is instead an organic text. And it all really rests on a simple premise: The author knows when to stop.’ AFTENPOSTEN 'Svanes borrows techniques from thriller literature and creates an intense and concentrated psychological drama in the confines of the seal-hunting ship, where anything can happen at any time. To the Western Ice is a significant, consistent, uncompromising and disturbing novel.' STAVANGER AFTENBLAD 'To the Western Ice takes the reader on an uncomfortable and claustrophobic journey by ship from Tromsø to the Western Ice – the great icy wastes – to hunt for seals. … Svanes has written a really good novel. With skillful use of narrative technique and language and a tight grasp of the theme, he creates a literary space which almost steps forward to within touch of the reader … The paranoia becomes tactile in step with Mari’s growing feeling of finding herself in no-mans-land, cut off from the rest of the world. This novel is so disconcerting that it could be a good alternative to reading a traditional crime novel.' UNIVERSITAS 'The convincing description runs remarkably parallel to the nastiness and animosity which are being fought out on board the ship. Svanes has an impressive talent for describing the psychological torture and the unbalanced relationship between the leader and the rest of the personnel. He is at his best when he writes about the brutal and intense, and his elegant writing succeeds in using the wide open icy wastes of the Arctic to create a feeling of claustrophobia.' iTROMSØ 'A stark presentation of seal-hunting on the Greenland ice – and of being a woman in a tough masculine environment … Svanes succeeds both in describing the coarse male milieu in its own terms and in tracing the female inspector’s reactions with sensitive understanding … The story is built up like a psychological thriller, with changes in time and perspective adding to the fascination and excitement.' ADRESSEAVISEN ´Svanes has written a violent and disturbing "arctic-noir"-thriller.´JYLLANDS-POSTEN, Denmark

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Till Death
Literature and Fiction2016 · 220 pp

Till Death

Hilde Lindset

Hilde Lindset is a name to watch. She has already published two powerful anthologies of short stories, and in this year’s book, Til døden, she demonstrates a wide range. Til døden consists of very diverse stories: intimate and remote, warm and cynical, tragic and comic, melancholic and life-affirming. Using weddings as a prism, love is analysed in its many wavelengths and the characters are compelled to focus on what really matters when all is said and done. With her third collection, Hilde Lindset emerges as one of our leading young exponents of the art of the short story.

Under the Window
Literature and Fiction2016 · 160 pp

Under the Window

Aksel Selmer

What to do when life gives you lemons? The main character in Under vinduet is a middle-aged supermarket worker who is on sick leave. She insists on wearing a rather old-fashioned neck-brace although there are doubts she really needs one for medical reasons. She also has family worries. Her daughter has moved in with an older lover before finishing high school. Her husband is more occupied with his sudden passion for bicycling than he is passionate about her and their marriage. Following the doctor’s advice, she starts a new routine of afternoon walks in the hope for a speedy recovery from her gloomy everyday life. In the course of her walks, she meets a man with a dog. They become friends and together they start spying at their neighbours during their evening strolls. Life suddenly gets much more interesting. Under vinduet is a heartfelt, loving story told with humour and soul.

Vampire
Literature and Fiction2016 · 256 pp

Vampire

Steffen Kverneland

The Edvard Munch expert Steffen is in charge of curating a Munch exhibition, when a strange death at the Munch musem sets him on the trail of a dangerous mystery. As Steffen digs deeper, he uncovers a dark secret in the painter's family history. Vampire is a gothic tale about a possible dark secret behind our greatest painter. It is about betrayal, desperation and sick love, seen through the eyes of a drunken cartoonist and Bohemian.This book is unlike anything else you’ve ever read. And much better than most of it. "Bloody and hilarious. Steffen Kverneland’s debut novel is a gothic horror tale about Edvard Munch."NRKBad blood in Bjørvika"Kverneland is right to the point here, both having a unique eye for visual details and an ear for lingual twists. ...And the illustrations is just remarkable!"DAG OG TIDSteffen Kverneland won the Brage Prize for his graphic biography MUNCH in 2013. Vampire is his first novel.

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The World Plays Hide and Seek
Literature and Fiction2016 · 224 pp

The World Plays Hide and Seek

Siri M. Kvamme

The protagonist in The World Plays Hide and Seek (Verden leker gjemsel), Hanna, is in her thirties. All she wants to do is to be an author and to start a family with her boyfriend, Morten. But Morten shows very little understanding for both her writing and for her wish of becoming a mother. He has two children from a previous relationship and says he doesn't want any more kids. Then Hanna is served some devastating news: She has an eye sight condition, which will slowly turn her more and more blind each year passing. On a trip to Iceland to take part in a half-marathon, she finally understands she needs to change her life. During the race, instead of crossing the finish line, she runs off in the rural Icelandic landscape, and meets a man, Hallgrim. She decides to stay with him, but the choice between Morten and Hallgrim steadily becomes more acute as her eye sight continues to deteriorate.The World Plays Hide and Seek is a novel about finding your own way.'Oh, how I recogniced myself in this story. Wanting to write, almost at any price, being so pasionate about it, day and night. But the man you love thinks what your doing is just nonsense ... A painful and beautiful novel.' ANNE B. RAGDE, AUTHOR 'Siri M. Kvamme put the problems like a painful tip of literary reflections into the protagonist´s life, the sickness, the uncertainty ... But the main characters disease is just one of several weighted strong elements in this novel, that has more than one narratives carrying the story. I would like to say lifting it, to a existentially wondering and interesting level.' HAUGESUNDS AVIS

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Volvo Lorries
Literature and Fiction2016 · 224 pp

Volvo Lorries

Erlend Loe

Volvo Lorries continues where Doppler stopped. We follow the same person and the same elk some distance into the Swedish forrest of Värmland, where they meet a scout who has slept under the stars twenty-five thousand times and an old lady who is addicted to weed and wants to change the world.Erlend Loe gives his imagination free rein this time, and the result is a madcap and playful text that some will clutch to their breast and others will avoid like the plague. "Into this Swedish Värmland universe walks a man. Doppler has arrived. Andreas Doppler. A Norwegian. He has with him his year-old elk, Bongo. And his son, Gregus. The elk walks behind him on the path and his son is asleep in the cart behind the elk.""Nothing short of masterly. (...) Sharp and intelligent. And strikingly funny."BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, Denmark"Fabulously funny. Yet another supernaïve and extraordinary novel from Erlend Loe."JYLLANDSPOSTEN, Denmark"With the follow up to Doppler, Loe has written one of his funniest and most unpredictable works."NRK P2"Damned. Super."DAGSAVISEN"It is a joyous read, and Erlend Loe has equipped the book with lots of comments and footnotes that are precious also on their own."KULTURSPEILET

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Isle In and Out
Literature and Fiction2016 · 56 pp

Isle In and Out

Caroline Kaspara Palonen

In this poetry collection we meet a female ‘I’ who lives on an island, in a lighthouse she has moved to in order to get some calm and peace. She leads a rather isolated life, but socialises with a grey cat and a female being.She is disturbed by memories of a person from the past and the knowledge that life on the mainland goes on without her.Øy, Øy is about grief, loss and writing; about days which cannot be put to rest; about experiencing closeness to nature and remoteness from people; about living with a wish for isolation; but also about longing for that one person.

America
Literature and Fiction2015 · 208 pp

America

Gro Dahle

The short stories in Amerika together make up a coherent narrative. The same characters appear in all of them: the girl, the mother and the father. The stories are all about the little family's life when they move to the big land of America. Two adults and a child: at the table; in the car; on holiday. A little girl growing up with a pinewood in the background. A father who yearns for spruce trees. A mother who has discovered sweet potatoes. Sometimes things are tight and difficult. Tangled misunderstandings and feelings of guilt; knotted stomachs, tense necks and anxious thoughts; days when everything is unattainable and it seems as if Death is standing right beside the bed. It's a matter of survival. Just keep breathing. Then they travel home, but to be at home is not always to feel at home. Some people never return, for there isn't always a way back.

MONKEY FACE 3: FIRELIGHTER
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2015 · 312 pp

MONKEY FACE 3: FIRELIGHTER

Tor Erling Naas

Martin only has one thought in his mind. He has to find his mother. The police think that she is hiding from the authorities, but Martin knows better. Even though the wolf man has been neutralised, the scary Karkov is lurking in the shadows. Whitey saved Martin's life, and with help from Oda, they find the talking monkey. But nothing is as Martin believes it to be, and in the end he understands he has to go it alone. But there's something about Oda and her fiery eyes. And the two blue stones hiding a secret message. Apefjes is a hybrid comic book and novel. It is set in Oslo, almost as we know it. Lilleeng and Naas have established an exciting and action-driven universe which continues to attract more readers.

Where the Clouds Begin
Literature and Fiction2015 · 160 pp

Where the Clouds Begin

Rannveig Fern Leite Molven

A loving apocalypse Rannveig Leite Molven debuted in 2012 with the novel Ordet for hva jeg er nå finnes ikke. “This little book is flawless,” Ellen Sofie Lauritzen wrote in Dagbladet. This linguistic confidence also shines through in her new novel, Der skyene begynner, a post-apocalyptic story about how a young mother and her daughter try to cope with everyday life in the aftermath of what we assume is a natural disaster. A world in freefall and people drifting apart are depicted using suggestive, dream-like language. But it is not dark and brutal – quite the opposite. They are depicted with loving intimacy. ‘Rannveig Leite Molven has previously had the novel Ordet for hva jeg er nå finnes ikke published, and her style is her very own: a recording and poetic prose that primarily consists of intimate, gradual observations that are pursued until they change in nature and are lost to a new observation. Good sentences arise from this; it is especially nice to read the longer trains of thought, which are up to a page long, such as this excerpt: “… the birds that scream sree, sree, everything glides one over the other, the sounds and the greens, the light grass, the darker bushes, the flowers, the blue sky over the farms, his salty smell, everything is fluid, enveloping us like a soft cocoon …”.’KLASSEKAMPEN‘Molven has created a minimalistic universe where the plot circles a mother and her daughter, Mink. It gradually becomes clear that there has been a catastrophe, more and more people leave town, only the child and her mother remain. Molven is confident in her writing style, the poetic form creates a drive in the text, which is only 160 pages long. I like how the crisis itself isn’t directly addressed. In this way, it becomes a lovely poetic book that also has several levels to it. Rather than a description of a climactic crisis, I choose to read it as an allegory for the symbiotic and complicated relationship that may exist between a mother and daughter. This can also be experienced as a crisis.’BERGENS TIDENDE

This is My Sea
Literature and Fiction2015 · 224 pp

This is My Sea

Caroline Kaspara Palonen

Beatrice lives in a cramped room in a big town. She is trying to write an assignment about a painting, and most of her life comes to a stop when she cannot manage to describe what she is really seeing. She begins to wonder whether it would have been better to have been part of an ambulance crew. Why is she sitting in a flat when she could have been out there saving lives? She meets a fairly ordinary chap called Viggo. When her parents come to visit, they tell her that she must stop saying ”I don't know,” because that's not the way to get a job. After completing her studies, Beatrice moves back to North Norway. Viggo comes with her to her little home town, a town facing the sea. Beatrice thinks that she too must face towards the sea. She gets a daughter, a job, a house, a dog. She has a deceased father, great grief, a sick mother and difficulties accepting all the normality of life around her. A novel about the importance of a camera and a pair of tusks in a young person's search for identity; about grief and anger; about distance and closeness; about cellphone crushing; about trying to reconcile oneself with the life one has chosen, with the help of a florist, a stranger, a pedometer, a regular schedule and a plan to bake a cake.