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Intonation
Literature and Fiction2021 · 336 pp

Intonation

Andreas Veie-Rosvoll

Simen Marbo and his thoroughly average band Nihilist Supreme dream of their big breakthrough. Washed-up radio journalist Jacob Reiner longs to hear some really good music. One alcohol-soaked night, Simon hits a vein of divine inspiration and the mega-hit, Placeholder, is born. The song sets in motion a series of events that spiral far beyond the control of Simen and Jacob. Intonation is a debut novel told with energy, wit, and great relish.

Unloved
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Literature and Fiction2021 · 224 pp

Unloved

Iram Haq

Sofia is from Oslo, the child of Pakistani parents. She often has too little money and spends too much time on Tinder. Sofia is awarded a grant to make photographic art but suspects she only got it because she’s brown. When her father falls seriously ill, she starts to take pictures of him. And when an old flame comes to town, Sofia’s yearning for love intensifies. A passionate affair ensues. Unloved is driven by painful comedy and characters with an instinct for survival. This debut is amongst the very best this fall. (…) A well composed narrative. (…) Unloved is a nuanced family portrait that both wonders and rebels. – FIVE STARS OUT OF SIXSTAVANGER AFTENBLAD With her debut novel Unloved, Iram Haq has made her way to the upper echelons of younger Norwegian novelists. Unloved is well written, and the topic of the book is good and important.- FIVE STARS OUT OF SIXNETTAVISEN Brutally honestIram Haq proves herself as a steady builder of character, and that makes the book principally good. Sofia is frighteningly vivid. Iram Haq has written a novel that leaves marks. – FIVE STARS OUT OF SIXDAGBLADET Funny, tender and sexy novelIram Haq´s debut novel is a great read!AFTENPOSTEN

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The Inn
Literature and Fiction2021 · 96 pp

The Inn

Per Dybvig

The Inn is Per Dybvigs fourth picture book. It is also his first one without text, in a format that is moving towards the graphic novel.

Our Wounds in the Clear-Cut
Literature and Fiction2021 · 72 pp

Our Wounds in the Clear-Cut

Kristin Berget

Our wounds in the clear-cut purge surrender shining trees blossom forth in the death rate whisper the name out here The poems in Kristin Berget’s sixth collection explore how humans live with and against nature, gather for meals, for prayer, around campfires, beside coffins when living conditions change.

The Agent syndrome
Literature and Fiction2020 · 304 pp

The Agent syndrome

Nils Gullak Horvei

The main character tells us: ‘When my wife joined the government, she started to talk like a politician. And these people she started hanging around with … they saw me as a nobody, a freeloader. Spying was my revenge. But most of all it was exciting. Everybody thinks you’re an insignificant author hanging onto your wife’s coat tails and begging for pocket money. When actually you’re a spy! But then you could say things took off, and I lost control.’

All the Songs are About You
Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 228 pp

All the Songs are About You

Sondre Lerche

All the Songs are About You consists of enthusiastic and personal essays about music, some of them reaching as far back as into childhood days in Bergen, and the young Lerche´s almost self-effacing obsession for the band a-ha and vocalist Morten Harket. In other texts he writes about other heroes like Prefab Sprout, Fiona Apple and Milton Nascimento. There is also room for concert experiences from the United States, with amongst others St. Vincent, Beyoncé and Kygo. And there is also long distance running, in Los Angeles, with ambient in his ears. According to Lerche there are no guilty pleasures in music. There is only pleasure. And just as important as the music we know and love are the more coinsidential musical meetings, those who take us well outside our comfort zone. Music that some might find useless can have powerful meaning for your neighbour - or millions of people. The texts of this book embrace that fact.

Everything That Is New
Literature and Fiction2020 · 104 pp

Everything That Is New

Anna Fiske

Everything That Is New is a picture book for adults. We meet a young woman and follow her over several weeks in texts and illustrations. She has a job, a husband and child, and lives in an apartment block but now has to move. To a new place, to a new home. The main character in the story is due to start a new job and her child will start at a new nursery school. Everything is new and strange. A cosy, intimate and poetic book about problems everybody can relate to.

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The Anti-feminist
Literature and Fiction2020 · 144 pp

The Anti-feminist

Rune Salvesen

Damned anti-feminist, Stine says to her husband Fillip. But she doesn’t know a thing. Because Fillip hasn’t told her about what happened when he was a child. When he has to clear out his mother’s house after her death, the smell of cheap perfume and cigarettes still lingers. Among all her belongings, Fillip finds his old diary – where he wrote about everything. Now he must face how the experiences of his childhood home has affected him and his family.Salvesens painful little novel deals with raw masculinity, depicted with tenderness and understanding instead of condemnation. It positions Salvesen as an author with a big heart as well as a something important to say. And we are not exactly spoilt with writing like that. KLASSEKAMPEN

Lovely Creature
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2020 · 384 pp

Lovely Creature

Karin Fossum

A single mother finds a disturbing drawing in her son’s room. A young man and a teenage boy meet by chance on the shores of the deep lake in Svartland Forest. The next day, sixteen-year-old Gritt Zeeland is found dead in the same forest. There are so many reasons why a pretty young girl might be in danger. Police inspector Sejer finds himself dealing with a distressing murder mystery that has many possible solutions. Gritt Zeeland let almost nobody get close to her, but there were plenty of people –young and old – who had noticed her. Lovely Creature is a profoundly penetrating crime novel about beauty and ugliness, tenderness and violence, great lies and painful realities.Reviews: Masterful! An extremely actual and masterly performed crime novel. Everything is so well done that you feel like immediately reading the book again just to see how all the dots are connected. ******VGSurprising and straight forward elegant. *****DAGBLADETFossum at her best ******TRØNDERAVISASo realistic and strong, just straight forward remarkable writing - no matter the genre. (...) Karin Fossums psychological reflections are impressive, and the progress of the narrative is impeccable. The book has plenty of surprises and the occasional twist that made me think: I did not see that coming. It does not get much better than that. ******NETTAVISENMore than an ordinary crime novel. ******TØNSBERGS BLADOne of Karin Fossum´s very best crime novels. ******ADRESSEAVISAOne of Karin Fossum´s very best!DAGSAVISEN

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Just a Mother
Literature and Fiction2020 · 272 pp

Just a Mother

Roy Jacobsen

After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has finally returned to Barrøy. Life has become more stable, but the war still casts its long shadows across the country. Former collaborators face cold shoulders or obscured retaliation. Others simply wish to leave the painful years in the past. One day a boy arrives on the island. Shortly thereafter, his father disappears. Ingrid assumes responsibility for the boy, and adopts him. As such, Mathias becomes a central part of the Barrøy community, together with Kaja, Ingrid’s daughter by birth. Life on the island is demanding, but the letters from friends in Oslo and Trondheim tell of a Norwegian society undergoing dramatic changes. Which stories should Ingrid keep to herself, and which ones should she bring to light? What kind of future is she imagining? Just a Mother is the fourth book in a series of novels that have delighted readers in Norway and abroad. It’s a novel about being a parent, being a part of a community, and about living under conditions that require hard labour. It is also a story about parts of our near past that have stayed in the dark. And it’s about an unusual woman, who has to navigate painful experiences in a rough, weather-beaten, and diverse society on the coast of Northern Norway.REVIEWSI demand that this book be read […] Roy Jacobsen writes truthfully, tenderly and sharply about the everyday heroes of toil and care.STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, NORWAYThe middle-aged woman and the sea […] sparkling depiction of coastal life […]ADRESSEAVISEN, NORWAYRoy Jacobsen has added a new chapter to his masterpiece. […]NETTAVISEN, NORWAYIt is a pure pleasure to read Roy Jacobsen’s novel Just a Mother. […] Just a Mother is a novel that keeps the reader captivated from the first to the last sentence.DAGBLADET, NORWAYRoy Jacobsen has written a beautiful and intense novel. […] poetic, virtuoso, warm and beautiful. […] No one describes the coastal and cultural history of the Helgeland coast as Roy Jacobsen.VG, NORWAYRoy Jacobsen raises the bar in the last volume […] Jacobsen stands out with a luminous mother portrait […] the best Roy Jacobsen has written about life on the Helgeland coast […]AFTENPOSTEN, NORWAYThe past as a mirror for the present […] Roy Jacobsen’s stories about the islanders on the Helgeland coast gradually resemble a magnificent saga about the basic human conditions in the struggle with nature. […] Roy Jacobsen’s own words that “a historical novel should be a contemporary novel” feel true. The author is a master of dialogues where secrets and trivialities form minefields and tensions.DAGSAVISEN, NORWAY With emotion, the reader follows the fate of these modest people. What separates us, and what unites us? For Roy Jacobsen, this is the essential question of this novel. A vast and passionate subject!LE JOURNAL DE LA HAUTE-MARNA, FRANCE

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Dis
Literature and Fiction2020 · 160 pp

Dis

Kjersti Kollbotn

Dis has left home to study, but it soon becomes clear that something is bothering her. She refuses contact with her mother, and her father doesn’t seem to be in the picture. Marginalised from social life, she seeks out her brother – a brother who is on his way to establishing himself, with his own life. What’s up with Dis, and why doesn’t she want to have contact with her own mother? We follow a questioning young woman seeking solid ground in an existence gone awry.

You and Me, Alfred
Literature and Fiction2020 · 112 pp

You and Me, Alfred

Edgar Burås

Norway, far off in the future. Elias lives in a house and the house is called Alfred. Alfred can think and speak, and provides shelter against the dangerous yellow rain that falls from the sky at irregular intervals. But Alfred also knows that Elias has a criminal past. Will his secret come out one day? And what happens when a robot refugee turns up outside the house? Must he take care of her? What is Elias to do?