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Edge of the Sea
Literature and Fiction2019 · 144 pp

Edge of the Sea

Lina Ulvestad Halås

As a part of her job as a nature consultant, a young woman goes back to the island and house where she grew up to evaluate the site where the municipality is planning to build a new museum. She is staying at home with her mother, where memories of her dead brother are constantly popping up: in the smell of his room, his old anorak. Edge of the Sea is a stylish and sharp novel about missing – and remembering – whether it is in the form of rooms, clothes, cartoons, or an old Beetle that's still sitting in the garage. Halås has her own way of capturing memories and feelings.

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Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 64 pp · Age 12 - 18

SABOTEUR - OPERATION MUSKETOON

John S. Jamtli

A dramatic war story unlike anything you've read before! We're in Northern Norway in 1942. It's a dark and cold September evening. Suddenly a submarine – Junon – rises out of the water, and twelve commandos on a sabotage mission appear. Operation Musketoon is underway. It's a very risky job. A team consisting of two Englishmen, one Canadian and two Norwegians row quietly into the fjord. Their target: the Glomfjord power station. Their guide is a young soldier from Linge-company, Sverre Granlund. This is his story. While Saboteur, John S. Jamtli's first critically acclaimed graphic novel about WW2, was a tall story based on reality, Saboteur – Operation Musketoon is the story as it really happened. But it is no less dramatic! Readers get to follow the saboteurs closely, over the mountain, through storms and fog, with the enemy hot on their heels. Based on the experiences of Sverre Granlund – who went from being a local guide in Northern Norway to carrying the whole operation on his shoulders.

Smiley Face Thumbs Up Rainbow
Literature and Fiction2019 · 152 pp

Smiley Face Thumbs Up Rainbow

Victoria Durnak

Ivana wants so be an actress, but can´t get into the Theatre Academy. Kaja is engaged to a man (Jostein) who is cheating. She contacts Ivana with the following suggestion - that she in one way or another befriends the mistress (Sunniva) and make her end the affair she is having with Jostein. "You could start by becoming a member of the same gym that Sunniva attends, and then take it from there? You will be paid well. And the experience will make you a much better actress - it would actually for sure get you into the Theatre Academy the next time around. I give you 12 months. What do you say?" Friendships are like locker rooms. Some of them are solid, with dimmed lighting and classy interior. Heat in the floor. Nourishing soap in the dispensers. Others are built in the cheapest possible material and have lighting that always make you look your worst.

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Sponge
Literature and Fiction2019 · 80 pp

Sponge

Morten Langeland

LEAVE: Memories of the fun and games of childhood, the South of Norway, the sudden loss of safety. An international poetry festival in Macedonia, the Balkans, as one of the invited poets. Read quickly - read loud! LEAVE: Balkan consists of two words. Bal meaning honey, the fertile land, everything green and the most beautiful girls, the wine. Kan meaning blood.

The Swarm
Literature and Fiction2019 · 160 pp

The Swarm

Anders Malm

Four young boys, ABC and D, refuse to live as individuals instead they seek a new form of existence: The Swarm. By the help of a strict code of honor, based off made-at-home algorithms, they attempt to rid themselves of individual burdens and the contemporary demands for exceptionality. When they find a collection of leftover designer clothes, that used to belong to one boy's mother, the parental generation's worship of the individual starts to interfere with the boys' collective project. Can the algorithms free us? This is an ambitious and dystopian novel about four boys denouncing the individuality and trying to melt into one. If you have had it with contemporary novels drilling into the every day problems of the urban middle class, Anders Malm is a fitting, if ever so gloomy, direction to turn. The thoughts are interesting, and the reader stays challenged all the way. FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

Growth Seasons
Literature and Fiction2019 · 120 pp

Growth Seasons

Kristian S. Hæggernes

Kristian S. Hæggernes writes about the summer holidays of his youth. The result is an intimate and personal poetry collection about the transition from childhood to youth. About a time of change involving explicit and unspoken expectations that can be difficult to relate to. Especially when you’re a shy boy who keeps his thoughts to himself at a time when the language of the body is speaking ever more clearly.

THE WORLD OCEAN
Literature and Fiction2019 · 312 pp

THE WORLD OCEAN

Cornelius Jakhelln

Sequel to Gudenes fall. As you might remember, it was with this novel that Cornelius Jakhelln won a major Nordic writing competition.Verdenshavet picks up where Gudenes fall left off – quite literally. Many of us make reference to the ocean of space – but this is anything but normal. It is here that Odin makes a dubious deal with Snorre to write “a prologue to Heimskringla where he praises Odin... thereby ensuring his name will live on forever”.The language here is not like what is standard today either. But it is not all like this – there are more standard parts. But as fantasy/sci-fi, it is first and foremost a human comedy, a distorting mirror that shows us ourselves.

We Lived Yesterday
Literature and Fiction2019 · 288 pp

We Lived Yesterday

Naja Søtje-Thomsen

“You should prepare yourself for your father to die young.” Mom has told me that several times. She is an intern at an ad agency in Copenhagen and shares a tiny apartment with Sara, a student her age. One afternoon, her mother calls and tells her that her father is dead, and that she is his closest relative. When growing up, she visited him during the summers and sent him letters during the rest of the year. As a young adult, she didn't have much contact with him. Now, she's traveling to Skagen to clean up after him, bury him, and look for things or signs of who he was – and who father and daughter were to one another. A loving and complex portrait of a father who has endeavored to keep his life in order and hold addiction at bay, is illustrated through memories and artefacts. We Lived Yesterday is a warm and painful novel.

Mother of All Hurricanes
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2018 · 272 pp

Mother of All Hurricanes

Gert Nygårdshaug

Fredric Drum takes a well-deserved break from his restaurant and heads on vacation to Mexico. Not unexpectedly, his holiday is interrupted when his uncle, KRIPOS investigator Skarphedin Olsen, calls to tell Drum that one of his archaeologist friends has gone missing in Mexico. Skarphedin connects Drum with the local police, and while searching for his missing friend, Drum is pulled into the hunt for a local serial killer, a political election campaign, and the exploration of the ancient scripts of the Maya civilization. "Fredric Drum is featured in the most original, intelligent, entertaining, and creative crime novels being written in Norway today." Dagbladet "Once in a rare while, fabulous feels like too weak a word. This crime novel is simply fantastic." Adresseavisen "It opens with a gripping depiction of a hurricane, while an unknown figure makes their way through the jungle to the forgotten Maya city. This is Nygårdshaug at his absolute best; he has perhaps never written a more engrossing opening to a novel. From this intense starting point, he constructs the plot with a masterful sense of both rhythm and dynamics." Hamar Arbeiderblad "From page one of The Mother of All Hurricanes, Gert Nygårdshaug charges ahead with relentless power and suspense that lasts until the final riddle is unraveled and the last word read. The Yucatán Peninsula isn't the only thing taken by storm here—we are, too." Vårt Land "Nygårdshaug's description of how the hurricane brews out at sea while the duty meteorologist at the Punta Allen coastal station records the startling data with a racing pulse is simply great literature—regardless of genre. The story as a whole fully delivers on the promise of its opening." Fredrikstad Blad "Here we savor delicacies, countless carafes of wine, and numerous lessons on ancient writing systems—a delightful blend of erudition, imagination, and sheer joy of writing. You could call it light-hearted crime with elements worthy of Indiana Jones. In other words, thoroughly enjoyable reading." Tønsbergs Blad

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ALL THAT REMAINS
Literature and Fiction2018 · 144 pp

ALL THAT REMAINS

Rannveig Fern Leite Molven

Rannveig Leite Molven has previously published the novels The Word for what I am now does not exist (2012) and Where the Shadows form (2015). In her third novel, All that remains, her language has a suggestive effect on the reader. We follow a young woman with a young daughter waiting for results from her doctor following a cancer checkup. In poetic prose with long, meandering sentences she brings us close to her state of mind and sensory experiences for a few intense weeks. All that Remains is a novel about how severe illness affects life on many levels. Even if you have recovered, everything has changed and the illness continues to have consequences for your relationship with yourself and the people around you, with children and with love.

The Handyman
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2018 · 136 pp · Age 6+

The Handyman

Øyvind Torseter

Mule boy has got a job as a handyman. And not any handyman. He even does work at the president’s house . If Mule boy does a good job, he may even be allowed to look after the nuclear suitcase one day! But problems emerge due to a lookalike. The handyman is an international political thriller. Or, not quite, then. However the book contains many amazing drawings.

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Bernard comes knocking
Literature and Fiction2018 · 128 pp

Bernard comes knocking

Ellen Mari Thelle

– Is it dead now? I whisper. I hunch down. – I think it is dead, you answer and bend over. I put the newspaper over it, pushing it slightly. – It is dead. I lift the bird, carrying it over to the garbage room. You follow, holding the door for me. I throw the dunlin in one of the grey binges. – Coffee? I ask, as I leave the room. Bernhard Comes Knocking is a novel about hoping and waiting. About it never being to late. And that it suddenly might be to late after all.