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Mascara Sleep
Literature and Fiction2019 · 144 pp

Mascara Sleep

Caroline Kaspara Palonen

In Mascara Sleep, we meet Edit, a woman in her early 30s. She is traveling north on the Hurtigruten from Harstad. She isn't traveling to seek great adventure. She says she's traveling because she's been told to leave. Her luggage contains a heart that has been broken on several levels: A difficult relationship with her sister, an elective abortion, an unexpressed oeuvre as a painter, a cohabitation with Egil that was perhaps a bit too constructed, and another married man. The stillness on board and all the hours in the cabin evoke memories from her childhood, young adult and adult life. And out on deck, Edit is greeted with raw coldness and an all-consuming darkness. The language of this novel is stark, hard and diminished. Mascara Sleep is a reluctant, painful and humorous novel. This is Caroline Kaspara Palonen's fourth novel. All of her books have explored various forms of exclusion and other questions connected to identity.

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The Murder of Lemuel Gulliver
Literature and Fiction2019 · 144 pp

The Murder of Lemuel Gulliver

Edgar Burås

Everyone knows the story of Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. Or do we really? Are we so certain about what's fiction and what's fact in this story?Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726 and became an immediate success, read and discussed across the whole world. These days, however, we normally find the narrative as a rewritten or abbreviated version, reduced to a fun children's book full of entertaining notions and exciting stories. But the truth – according to Edgar Burås – is that the book is far more believable and realistic than most people know. It conceals a true story.Burås knows this thanks to Robert Loxley, who traveled to Newark-on-Trent himself to seek out the real Gulliver, who had moved to the countryside with his family. Loxley was looking for the Lilliput animals that Gulliver took with him before he made his way home.This novel is about the first inquiry and what happens afterwards, brilliantly told by Burås. The result is an enlightened story that consists of layer upon layer of text, but that is also extremely exciting, sharp and engaging. It also takes the adventure genre seriously; everything that can possibly be included has been, from lost manuscripts and dark and stormy nights to detective stories and fantastic journeys. It is strange, complex, funny and sensationally original. The Murder of Lemuel Gulliver will call forth associations with the best fairytale-tellers throughout history.

Mothers and Daughters
Literature and Fiction2019 · 176 pp

Mothers and Daughters

Tiril Broch

This is a story about loss. And about troubled love. And about mental health. And about the darkest darkness and brightest light. And about one of the 593 suicides in Norway in 2017. And bout being mothers and daughters. But it is also a story about laughter. In 2017 Tiril Broch Aakre looses her mother, who has chosen to end her life after struggling with mental illness for a long time. The daughter is going through her mother’s things, and through writing try to paint a portrait of a mother that will not be caught up by neither diagnosis nor what a traditional mother should be like. Through looking at her mother’s things, reading her books and letters, looking at pictures and digging through memory, the daughter tries to find the truth about who her mother was. The mothers voice is also heard through letters and text she has written and sentences underlined in books. In this way the mother draws up the way she sees the world, and the way she sees her daughter. And through this work the daughter has to ask herself: What is actually love? Mothers and Daughters is a novel about love and compassion, about mourning and mental illness. But most of all it is a story about being a mother and being a daughter. WHAT A BOOK!Beautiful, tender, honest and furious about a mothers suicide. ******DAGBLADET

Nude in Hijab
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 304 pp

Nude in Hijab

Gunn Marit Nisja

When Live and her friend travel to exotic Egypt, it ends up striking Live mid-heart. She ends up falling overwhelmingly in love with the local guide Kareem, marry him and move into his family home. But soon Kareem changes, and Live ends up trapped in a hijab. This book was nominated to the Norwegian Bookseller Award in 2016.

When I Drink
Literature and Fiction2019 · 128 pp

When I Drink

Martin Svedman

11-year-old Henrik stretches out on the bathroom floor after drinking vodka. He laughs, he cries, he discovers that he has a talent for ecstasy. When he as a young man starts his MBA his parents have been trying to deal with his alcoholism for years. He has been to rehab and in therapy. Henrik can stop drinking for a while. The problem is that he always starts drinking again. As a student he meets Sofie. Henrik likes that Sofie has a sense for numbers and complex calculations, and that she knows the piano concertos by Mozart. And he loves that she can drink just as much as he can. But when Henrik and Sofie move in together, Sofie changes personality. She stops drinking.When I drink is a poetry collection that portrays an alcoholic through sad, euphoric, painful, hopeful, absurd, and pathetic episodes. Henrik becomes just as sick when he does not drink as when he drinks. In a precise, specific and at times playfully poetic language the author shows us the otherness and pain of the alcoholic, and the way that they react both mentally and physically in a different way to a substance that most of us have a relationship to - alcohol.Inspired by the prose of Charles Baudelaire and talkative, narrative poets like Frank O´Hara, the author started writing poetry after being submitted to detox. He has not had a drink for 8 years.This book is solid. A long time will pass between each time a poetry collection of this calibre is published in Norway.DAGBLADETWhen I drink is in every way an unusual collection of poems. Not just unusually good. First and foremost, the collection is a rarity because it wants to do more than to mirror its originator.ADRESSEAVISENThe first print run was sold out in less than 2 weeks when the book was launched in Norway in January of 2019.

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The Olive Stone
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

The Olive Stone

Gunn Marit Nisja

Hoda is 18 years old and supposed to be married off. Her family run Tree of Life, a popular inn next to the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. The inn is both a lively gathering place for western tourists, as well as a private home where the young daughters honour is under strict control. The family is introducing Hoda to a number of candidates for marriage, but within her completely different feelings are growing. When the Norwegian journalist Sigrid moves in and advises her to follow her own heart, it ends up having unexpected consequences for them both...

ACROSS THE ROAD
Literature and Fiction2019 · 176 pp

ACROSS THE ROAD

Petter Brevik

Across the Road is a three-part novel. The book starts with its narrator and protagonist – a resourceful young man from the Westside of Oslo – being diagnosed with a serious genetic illness, and his subsequent attempts to meet with family and friends in a half-hearted attempt to escape his condition. Along the way, he is told the story of his father – a man he never knew and from whom he inherited the disease. Across the Road is a disquieting account about heritage, illness and social decline. At the same time, there is something unfathomable about the text – a desire to express the inexpressible, and to find answers to questions that are difficult to answer: Is there such a thing as "fate"? Is it possible to communicate your innermost feelings? Can one free oneself from heritage and become someone else? The novel is a journey towards death, a waiting room in purgatory, and the narrator's language is sober and industrial – stripped of enriching adjectives. Peter Handke is a clear influence, as well as William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, Stig Sæterbakken, and Dante.

PASSENGER STORIES
Literature and Fiction2019 · 144 pp

PASSENGER STORIES

Ylva Berger

A mother and son go on a reconciliation cruise in the Mediterranean. A woman has a breakdown at Heathrow. And someone else witnesses an accident on the bus driving through Oslo. The characters in Ylva Østby's playful debut novel wrestle with the same questions no matter where they are in the world: Who are we in relation to other people, and in relation to our own memories? What is true and what is real? An initial praise to the author: These texts are fiction. She has exquisite use of literary means, linguistic imagery, asssociation and motives. In her best stories she shows us that "less is more". I predict a great future in fiction for Ylva Østby. KLASSEKAMPEN

SUDDENLY HOT WEATHER
Literature and Fiction2019 · 208 pp

SUDDENLY HOT WEATHER

Ingeborg Arvola

Through the window of the travel agency, Lillian sees the Russian girl pushing the buggy with the child of the man who was, until recently, her boyfriend. At the horseracing track, a woman eats a bad hot-dog and has a vision. In the Mediterranean, Einar goes diving and retrieves objects no one should find out about. Ingeborg Arvola's third book of collected stories Suddenly Hot Weather contains comic, hopeful, gloomy, and magical stories about human life.

The Porcelaine Girl
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

The Porcelaine Girl

Gunn Marit Nisja

Kristin is in her late thirties, and to her mother´s great disappointment still single and childless. But her dream comes true when she opens the café Little Pots in the hamlet of Åndalsnes. At the night of the opening, nineteen year old Marta knocks on the door. Kristin hires Marta, even though the young girl is clearly marked by a dark past. When Kristin´s father dies abruptly, she is expected to come home and take over the family farm. Can she let her family down and follow her own path?

The Porter Residence
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 304 pp

The Porter Residence

Gøril Emilie Hellen

Ten year old Svanhild thinks she lives in the safest place in the world: the porter residence by the city hospital, where her father Johan has a post as a porter. She idolizes her brother Einar, almost ten years her elder, even though the adults say that his imagination has run wild. Svanhild is going to Girl Scout camp, but she misses her brother, who's been admitted to the psychiatric hospital. The day Svanhild comes home from camp, tragedy strikes. The Porter Residence is a poignant and poetic novel about a family that falls victim to the post-war healthcare system and treatment methods of that time.

On the Edge of Vigeland
Literature and Fiction2019 · 72 pp

On the Edge of Vigeland

Roy Jacobsen

Roy Jacobsen's celebrated essay on his many childhood visits to the Vigeland Park, the world's largest sculpture park by a single artist, and his mother's mysterious dentist appointments, is now a book of its own, accompanied by photographs. This personal essay is a must-read for all Jacobsen fans. 'Not only does the text impart knowledge about Vigeland's artwork, but it also approaches something I understand to be the driving powers in Roy Jacobsen's authorship, rife with countless strong, complex female figures as it is. Making the invisible struggle visible isn't just a goal for his newest series fra Barrøy on the Helgeland coast (…) The essay is appalling, upsetting – and encouraging.'KLASSEKAMPEN'I wouldn't have believed that one of the year's best reading experiences would show up in an anthology about Oslo's art collection.'AFTENPOSTEN

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