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The Lotus Eaters
Literature and Fiction2017 · 176 pp

The Lotus Eaters

Kristian Klausen

The Lotus Eaters is a book about how consciousness enters a dialogue with the arts. The narrator poses the existential question: “Why was I born?” before moving through a series of works that have had meaning for him. The absurd drawings of Gary Larson, Jackson Pollock's paintings, Mickey Rourke's role in Rumble Fish, a sentence from Ulysses. The Lotus Eaters is a narratively ambitious and playful collection of short stories.

Lightyears
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Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

Lightyears

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm

Sunstorms have made the earth uninhabitable. Humanity's last hope, 24 selected passengers in cryo chambers and with erased memories, are on their way to the closest habitable planet – 543 years away. Norway, the only conscious passenger on board, does their duties, getting the best out of its watch and overlooking the strange banging sounds from the air conditioner. Lightyears is a sad, beautiful and exciting journey back in time and space.Didrik Morits Hallstrøm writes Science Fiction that will give you chills. The depictions of the lonely life aboard the space ship «Vita» is written in detail and intensity, instantly gripping the reader. This is a story that could not have been told in any other perspective. Through short and compact narratives the reader is included in the life and routines of «Vita». The space ship, dead, empty and awful, is brought to life in an impressive way through the writing of Hallstrøm. This is a book that you can pick up without regret.AFTENPOSTENWorrying and thought provoking.I do not see the point to decide what this novel is actually about. I like that I for days after I end reading it still walk around thinking about what the book is trying to tell me, and then come up with new things.DAG OG TID Lightyears is this years best interstellar small town novel. And that is no small achievement. VG

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Between Dream and Presence
Literature and Fiction2017 · 288 pp

Between Dream and Presence

Jan Jakob Tønseth / Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen

Jan Jakob Tønseth made his debut in the 70´s - a liberatingly apolitical voice in a time when politics ruled - also in the domain of poetry. He is hard to place, a traditionalist on the threshold to modernism, a central lyrisist with the tendancy of surrealist rethorics. In 2017 he turns 70 years old, and we celebrate by publishing his collected poetry. In the afterword, Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen gives us a presentation of the poet and his works.

Mulysses
Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

Mulysses

Øyvind Torseter

Mule Boy goes to sea. And his travels go about as well as they do for many other boys on their first journey: poverty forces him on a dangerous trip with an eccentric adventurer who is searching for the eye of a sea monster. We follow Mule Boy's dangerous journey through the comic book format. We take part in the emotional gusts he undergoes – far from home, under an unpredictable captain and dealing with the strong feelings for a blind passenger that gradually start to appear.

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If only
Literature and Fiction2017 · 320 pp

If only

Vigdis Hjorth

The playwright Ida Heier has met the love of her life: the professor Arnold Busk, who is ten years her senior. Both are married and have children. For several years she pines for him to let go of his family for her. But when he does their relationship moves toward the extreme, an obsession that borders on madness… «A great, tragic romance novel that hits the reader like a high-speed train.»DAGBLADET «With the novel If only Hjorth steps up a division. It is written with the blood of her heart, and might be her best novel.»VG «By the end of If Only, Hjorth reworks that old aphorism: unhappy stories are all alike. It’s the ones that eke out a kind of happiness that set themselves apart. Hjorth emerges once again, in this novel, as not only a chronicler of the bruised and bloody, but their champion, an author who grants her characters the power to author their own stories themselves.»Full Stop (US) «An absorbing study of inner turmoil ... gripping.»Guardian «Addictive ... The beauty of If Only is in the way Hjorth underscores how often love and suffering are bedmates.»Susie Mesure, Financial Times «Cult author Vigdis Hjorth’s most important novel ... If Only exposes the tragedy of both longing for and attaining one’s love object.»Mia Levitin, Monocle «Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers.»Sheila Heti «A love affair consumes a Norwegian woman's life in Hjorth's breathtaking latest ... Hjorth's narration is both irresistible and exhausting, a headlong rush that describes and enacts Ida's feelings as she careens between love and hate for a man she knows isn't "worth the sacrifice." Like Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, Ida has occasional flashes that she's acting irrationally, and Hjorth evokes the agony of her protagonist's self-entrapment to a devastating degree. It's an enthralling tale of passion gone to rot.»starred review, Publishers Weekly «Hjorth, the Norwegian novelist behind 2022’s Is Mother Dead, painstakingly chronicles a 30-year-old married woman’s all-consuming and volatile romance with a married man, which blurs the lines between passion and love.»Sophia Stewart, The Millions «The Norwegian author of Long Live the Post Horn! and Will and Testament has formed a small but formidable cult following in the US, and If Only should only grow their army. If Only starts off with enigmatic and addictive words of love and death that call to mind our favorite doomed affairs-painful and poetic, cursed and necessary, we must go back in time to understand how our heroine found herself on the brink, caught between passion and ruin.»James Folta, Lit Hub; Most Anticipated Books of 2024 «Feverish and intoxicating, If Only is a novel about the depths of a life-altering devotion and the connections between love, creativity, and self-making.»Foreword Reviews «Who are we without passionate love, and do we need heartbreak to truly know ourselves? If Only chronicles one woman’s questions of life, love and existence during a torrid love affair.»B&N Reads «Everything here that sets my teeth on edge – the claustrophobia and repetition, the endless torture the lovers put each other through – is exactly what makes Hjorth’s novel so remarkably, and horrifyingly, accomplished.»Lucy Scholes, Telegraph «Hjorth’s portrait of her heroine’s madness nearly always teeters towards comedy, which is one reason the book, though depicting suffering and shame, is such a pleasure to read.»Stuart Jeffries, Observer «In form and function, If Only paints a vivid portrait of desperation ... And for what? For love? For lust? For nothing? The question is not answered. It’s simply two lives laid out for ultimate destruction.»Frank Valish, Under the Radar

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Care
Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

Care

Kristin Buvik Sivertsen

On February 17, 2015, the police are called to an assisted living facility about a suspicious death and a possible rape. More than a month and a half later, a recently graduated policewoman is brought on to the case. She starts interviewing residents, employees and others who might be able to shed light on what happened. Slowly but surely, the conditions at the assisted living facility are revealed. We get not only the residents' interpretation of what happened, but also that of the social educator and a psychology student who were on duty the night of the 7th, as well as the police's. Thus, the pros and cons of a system that insists on one particular solution to a problem are shown. As rigid as the system is, the style of writing is, in opposition, flexible when it lists the different views, opinions and theories. Whether it is a retired policeman or the patient who stubbornly claims that he is invisible at night. With an insightful, sharp, exciting and enjoyable debut, Kristin Buvik Sivertsen asks the question of what care means in the year 2016.

Pornomania
Literature and Fiction2017 · 320 pp

Pornomania

Eirik Husby Sæther

Mattis grows up in an age of porn magazines and censored pictures of naked bodies. But then the Internet arrives, the censorship is gone and porn is made available for free through streaming. To attract "voyeurs" the porn becomes more and more violent and humiliating. This is when porn take over the life of Mattis. From living in a house with his parents and younger sister, he is institutionalized in the care of the state. He is sentenced for rape, arson and hard violence. The pornography imprisons him, in a bodily prison he wants to break free from. This is a novel about a generation of voyeurs. About extroverted sex and loneliness.

The Eyes of Rigel
Literature and Fiction2017 · 240 pp

The Eyes of Rigel

Roy Jacobsen

The Eyes of Rigel is the third book in the Barrøy trilogy. A strong, epic novel about a country and a people after a great war. In this moving story about a woman that does what everyone tells her not to, Ingrid Barrøy ventures out on a hazardous quest to find the young Russian Alexander, a man she had a love affair with and who is the father of her child.-- ‘Gripping road movie about a mother and child in search of a Russian refugee.’ ‘(...) few authors other than Roy Jacobsen can weave together the local, the national and the global; the shadows of the past and our conflict-ridden world in the here and now.’ Stavanger Aftenblad 6/6 ‘When we read The Eyes of Rigel (and the two other books), we hear the language of northern Norway. And it isn’t just in the dialogue either. The depictions of the environment transport you to that part of the country even when the reality is described in perfectly standard Norwegian. This is the work of a master. (…) Roy Jacobsen has done it again. It is melancholy, it is beautiful, it is funny and it is extremely good. If this is the end of Ingrid Barrøy’s story, then it’s a worthy ending.’ Book365 6/6 An unusually beautiful voyage ‘The third book in Roy Jacobsen’s novel cycle about Ingrid Barrøy is a beautiful, poetic and sometimes brutal story. (…) The whole of this great little novel is a vibrant portrayal of life after war, life after catastrophe, life after love. (…) Read it yourself, this extraordinarily beautiful voyage from sea to forest, inland and back, among people with internal and external scars, in a war for peace.’ VG 6/6 ‘Roy Jacobsen takes factual, known events as his starting point, then goes on to broaden the horizon, step by step, until we are left with truths about the human condition, mortality and vulnerability.’ Klassekampen Ingrid’s Wonderful Adventure ‘Jacobsen’s images of a society undergoing rapid development are as sharp and finely drawn as his glimpses of nature, forest, birdsong and the absence of the sea – in what also becomes a Wonderful Adventure of Ingrid Barrøy. (…) This book is a high point.’ NRK

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See Europe
Literature and Fiction2017 · 304 pp

See Europe

Wera Sæther

We are in Oslo and Budapest, where we are following the fates of several people with a family connection: At the center of the story is Rita, who is no longer with them. Who are we and how can we live in the world we are committed to? Wera Sæther's first novel in eight years is a powerful and insightful story of loss and sorrow, about those who are left behind. See Europe is an opus compiled around a country on the outskirts.

The Mall
Literature and Fiction2017 · 152 pp

The Mall

Victoria Durnak

In The Center (Senteret), Victoria Durnak explores major themes such as loneliness and post-partum depression, but with a pleasant narrative voice that is both inquisitive and smart at the same time. As in her previous novel, The Marketplace (Torget) from 2015, Durnak examines how meetings between people can take place in our day and age. While The Marketplace looked at the website finn.no, the action in Durnak's new novel takes place at the mall. We get familiar with the book's protagonist: a young mother who has moved to Skien to get away – away from Oslo. Away from the man who does not want to be the father of her child. She spends her days at Herkules Shopping Center, visiting the shops and the people who work in them, watching them and trying to make contact with them – while at the same time trying to mother a daughter she still hasn't been able to name. According to the Naming Act, you have six months to name your child. You can do a lot in six months. "The harsh reluctance and all the black humor that pours out of the eyes of this single mother, creates both identification and empathy. There us life in the land of the mall! The Center is Victoria Durnaks best book so far."NRK"Durnak reminds me about the American multi artist Miranda July, both in form and content. It is playful, sometimes silly, and at the same time dead serious - and it works well, especially in treating the subject in this book. (...) Along with being very funny, Durnak is also innovative, straight forward and light in her writing."AFTENPOSTEN

Skrekkens mestere
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2017 · 288 pp · Age 12+

Skrekkens mestere

Tore Aurstad

Tore Aurstad har redigert en samling korte fortellinger og noveller for lesere som elsker å bli skremt. Her er det klassikere, men også tekster fra kjente forfattere som aldri har vært tilgjengelig på norsk tidligere. En ypperlig samling for ungdom og voksne. Her dekkes alle sjangere som vampyrer, gotisk grøss, aliens, spøkelser, mordere og mystiske monstre under en flytebrygge. Tore Aurstad har også skrevet korte og begeistrete tekster om hver enkelt forfatter. En godt sted å begynne hvis man vil sette seg inn i grøssende litteratur.

Battlefield
Literature and Fiction2017 · 176 pp

Battlefield

Geir Olav Jørgensen

Familyman Torgrim Eik moves out of his home one weekend to sail over the fjord and go hunting. As he walks through the mountains, memories from a wandering life appear to him. And he begins an internal hunt. Geir Olav Jørgensen reappears as one of our most powerful writers with a novel that descends into the undercurrents of humanity. Full German translation avaliable.