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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
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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.

When Everything is Built of Paper
Literature and Fiction2021 · 320 pp

When Everything is Built of Paper

Sunniva M. Roligheten

This debut novel consists of chapters structured as homework. Each chapter has a subject and a topic, while all the paragraphs are the protagonist’s memories and start with ‘I remember’. The memories are drawn from childhood on a farm in the Telemark region, the temporary house the mother moves to and the house in the town where the new Dad lives. As the protagonist grows up, the farm and the father steadily become ever more dilapidated.

Paradise
Literature and Fiction2021 · 320 pp

Paradise

Henrik H. Langeland

At last, nine years on from our first encounter with Oslo youngsters Lars and Hauk, Simone, Remi and Amar, the World Champion series is back. It is 1991 and life is tough for 21-year-old Amar Singh. His parents believe their son is living the life of a dutiful young Sikh with ambitions to become an engineer. In reality, he has found a sense of belonging in Islam – but his Muslim friends in Grønland’s mosque community are unaware of his Sikh background. Amar’s close friend Fazal is en route to radicalisation and, as the novel opens, his childhood sweetheart, Preeti, has just been coerced into a forced marriage. That’s when Hauk turns up. The third book in Langeland’s Oslo cycle is a fast-paced, punchy and tense tale of identity, loyalty and vulnerability.

The Fall of the Patriarchy
Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 104 pp

The Fall of the Patriarchy

Marta Breen / Jenny Jordahl

Through history feminists have been ridiculed and harassed all around the World. In the 18th Century well-known feminists where decapitated in the guillotines, and in the 19th Century the Suffragettes were thrown in jail. In our time feminist activists are imprisoned in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia. Feminists are labelled as moody, angry and unattractive. Still, new generations are daring to proudly call themselves feminists. Author Marta Breen and illustrator Jenny Jordahl have through a number of books proved themselves as great communicators when it comes to the history of women. In this book they take the reader for a joyride through the cultural history of the patriarchy. With a good dose of humour the tell the stories about how men from Aristoteles to Woody Allen has described the world through the male gaze. They tell the stories of the women who through history has fought the oppression – and they rank the world’s worst sexists through times. Join us in finally taking down the patriarchy!

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Right to Privacy
Literature and Fiction2021 · 346 pp

Right to Privacy

Selma Lønning Aarø

An author wakes up in hospital. Something dramatic has happened – she just can’t quite remember what. What she can recall, however, is what happened before. When the author moves to Fredrikstad from Oslo with her family, she finds new friends, a new life and what she hopes will be the starting-point for a new novel. Her new girlfriend X has given her permission to write whatever she wants about what they describe as a major issue that has marked X’s life. It looks set to be the author’s best novel ever, but X gradually becomes increasingly unstable and intimidating, and the author realises that her entire writing project is in jeopardy. The same goes for her artistic freedom, her finances, her relationship to her publisher and colleagues – not to mention the relationships in her own family. What can an author allow herself, and who really owns a story? Selma Lønning Aarø’s new novel is funny, sometimes frightening and unusually topical. A continuation of a strong feminist tradition, it also comments on the debate about reality literature. Funny and sharp-witted “Selma Lønning Aarø explores the dilemmas of autofiction – and with a brand new twist. … What is the ethical responsibility of an author? [Her] new novel, Right to Privacy, goes straight to the heart of this problem in a way that is both funny and thought-provoking. (…) You come home with her, and would rather not leave. (…) she is both very funny and knowledgeable.” AFTENPOSTEN “Elegantly done (…) Selma Lønning Aarø writes with levity and humour, with lots of funny and sharp turns of phrase, observations, conclusions. (…) And there is it again, the question of what is real – and “real”. Selma Lønning Aarø doesn’t offer a solution. That’s the point. But a fun and quite original twist on the problem raised, is something that is definitely offered in Right to Privacy.” DAGSAVISEN Satirical and astute “With Right to Privacy, Selma Lønning Aarø invites us to think critically about the use of real-life models in literature, and she offers several interesting reflections about the nature of truth and who gets to tell their story.” DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV “It’s a smooth-flowing, well-oiled text, written without ornaments, tight-reined … Lønning Aarø writes hilariously about being perceived as getting on in years, about supposedly belonging to a time gone by.” FREDRIKSTAD BLAD

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The Angry Psychologist
Literature and Fiction2021 · 416 pp

The Angry Psychologist

Synne Sun Løes

The Angry Psychologist: Idunn Jæger (49) is supposed to rescue other people. But one day, everything falls apart. One Monday morning, psychologist Idunn Jæger finds a woman standing outside the District Psychiatric Centre (DPC) with a basket full of eggs. Before she has time to think it through, Idunn finds herself joining in as the woman hurling eggs at her workplace. A lot of eggs. It’s marvellous to see them smashing against the glass door. Idunn is 49 years old and single. She is thoroughly dreading the departure of her son Gustav, who’s about to start military service. She’s enraged by the official one-size-fits-all approach to mental health care. She is angry with Health Minister, and his zero tolerance goal for suicide, which she views as unrealistic and inhumane. It’s tempting to lie down on the sofa and just give up. But then the police ring at her door. And Freud creeps out of the sofa cushion. The Angry Psychologist is a satirical novel in which the distance between supposed normality and insanity is wafer-thin.Synne Sun Løes has written a really funny book! *****NETTAVISEN It´s entertaining to see someone "loose it" completely. DAGBLADET

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The Summer Party
Literature and Fiction2021 · 208 pp

The Summer Party

Marte Qvenild

Marte Qvenlid´s debut novel The Summer Party starts with the main carachter Sylvi having a sudden feeling of vertigo and having to sit down. She is waiting for her son, daughter in law and grandson, and everything has so be perfect. Two types of wheat bread, the pavorite pie of the grandson and so on. But Sylvi is no longer as young and agile as the has been. Her health is fallling apart, the same way that her farm is falling apart because the planet has started falling apart. And soon we will find that the small familiy arriving is also falling apart. The Summer Party is a novel about loosing those who are your closest, and the right to keep in control. In control over you own life, the life of others and the life of the planet.

Nails in Mourning
Literature and Fiction2021

Nails in Mourning

Morten Langeland

After what was supposed to be a short get-together by the river before dusk, two good friends manage to bring home a freshly caught salmon by a funny coincidence. They have no other choice but to prepare the salmon on a whim and spontaneously invite a bunch of people over for dinner. The invitation is quite random and widely spread, on a first-come, first-served basis which will set the tone for the rest of the night. Nails in Mourning is a novel in which a large and spawning mature salmon not only forms the economic basis for the story, but also in a way forms the value basis for the way the text develops. To belong or to fall behind, to live or to exist, to be included or to be in a 'condition of secrecy'– thats's what this weird, demanding and yet deeply captivating novel is about.FÆDELANDSVENNEN A LITTERARY FEASTThe wordstream Nails in mourning is rich and satisfying. I reccomend grabbing a slice.VÅRT LAND

Tango with Elisa
Literature and Fiction2021 · 208 pp

Tango with Elisa

Wera Sæther

Tango with Elisa continues the story of See Europe in Budapest and Oslo. The child Elisa – who can see, hear, speak and remember but cannot read – serves as a prism. In See Europe, the soundtrack was provided by Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony. Tango with Elisa opens with Bartok. Budapest is a character in the book. But most important of all is Elisa – and Rita, who chose to die but lives on in everyone’s memory.

Time Wants Another Image
Literature and Fiction2021 · 192 pp

Time Wants Another Image

Eirin Betten

Time Wants a Different Image is a portrait of four young people who meet at a holiday home in 2016. Brexit, the Paris Agreement and the US presidential election serve as the framework for the conversations among the four friends. But there’s a smouldering beneath the surface; things are kept hidden and the four of them hide from one another. We go back in time with Claudia, Michael, Casper and Susanne, who also have intersecting romantic relationships. The story extends over ten years and each chapter deals with a single event in the characters’ lives. 2016: Claudia has lost her boyfriend Edward in a tragic car accident outside Paris. She has barely spoken to anyone since the accident but now she plucks up the courage to ring on the doorbell of the woman in the flat next door. The woman asks Claudia disturbing questions about her grieving process and where she is in life. ‘Didn’t you get what you were promised?’ asks the woman. ‘I wasn’t promised anything,’ Claudia replies. 2014: Susanne is a guest at a wedding but feels like a misfit. Bourgeois conventions aren’t her thing. Too much happiness, tears, speeches. She has enough to deal with in her own life already. Like the abortion she has just had and Michael, who didn’t find out about it until it was already done. ‘What’s the point?’ she thinks, before hurling herself into the dark water for a night-time dip with the other wedding guests. 2012: Michael is working as a model for an older female photographer in London and discovers what it’s like to be captured by another person’s gaze. The photographer thinks he is a perfect representative of his own generation, well-adjusted and with every opportunity ahead of him. But Michael is indifferent to all that. Being in your twenties isn’t as brilliant as the photographer makes out. He is impatient and in love with Susanne – he always has been. So why does Casper constantly intrude on his thoughts? 2006: Casper is at his parents’ holiday home, a summer week with only himself for company. ‘Who are we when we are alone?’ he wonders, and catches himself thinking that the absence of other people is good for him. Suddenly Oline, the daughter of the people in the neigbouring cabin, appears on the doorstep. She is writing a book about why gulls are vanishing from the ocean regions where they usually live. All Casper knows is that she will play an important role in his future life – just not what that role will be. Who are these young people – in relation to themselves and one another? What do they reveal, what do they keep to themselves, who are they and what do they want? How are our lives shaped by underlying structures? Who are we supposed be in a world that has become fragmented?Time Wants a Different Image is a mature, stylistically assured debut that also draws a rich portrait of a generation.

Twelve Light Years
Literature and Fiction2021 · 544 pp

Twelve Light Years

Gro Dahle

Twelve Light Years is an astonishing novel – unreal yet utterly natural. The year is 2032. Norwegian Vera is one of 19 000 applicants to NASA's space training programme for astronauts. She's chosen: First to attend NASA's astronaut education, then to take part in China’s space programme, and finally to be part of the ten-person crew being sent to the exoplanet Luytens B. Luytens B is 12.36 light years away and is said to be a Super Earth. It's in the Canis Minor constellation, where the astronauts will seek out life and establish a space station. On her way to the planet, Vera becomes pregnant. She and the captain of the spaceship, Edvard, have followed the programme that was laid out for them: they will become a family. Back on Earth, Vera has a father and a sister. And it's not like the immense distance makes her past life disappear. The journey to Luytens B also proves to be dangerous in ways none of the ten pioneers could imagine. ‘Gro Dahle has us holding our breath as if it's a thriller.’Tønsbergs blad, five/six stars ‘[...] joyful and exciting entertainment. Almost impossible to put down before the last page is finished.’Dagsavisen ‘[...] it's hard not to be deeply impressed and entertained by this epic science fiction novel.’Vårt Land