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Blood
Literature and Fiction2025 · 544 pp

Blood

Torgrim Eggen

What makes two teenage brothers from a small village in Norway, enlist in Waffen-SS? Oddmund and Sigurd grow up in a small Norwegian village in the 1930s, surrounded by competing ideologies and political tensions. Dark clouds loom over the valley. Europe is on the brink of war, and soon everyone must choose a side. The brothers align themselves with the Germans in the fateful struggle against Stalin. At just seventeen years old, they both become soldiers in Waffen-SS. While Oddmund fights at Leningrad, Sigurd is sent to Finland. They survive the war, but when they return to a liberated Norway, they must face the consequences of their choices. How will their lives unfold? And what marks do they leave on their descendants and family? In the novel’s final part, the author himself steps forward—as their nephew and descendant—in an attempt to understand the legacy of Sigurd and Oddmund. The result is a novel of moral gravity, linguistic precision, and emotional force. Blood is a story about heroes and traitors, the dream of honour and the nightmares that follow, and it portrays a time that bears an unsettling resemblance to our own. «Eggen’s most ambitious, most personal, and certainly his best novel. [...] Eggen’s prose is razor-sharp, full of historical detail and fascinating observations.»Adresseavisen, six/six stars «Eggen delivers a gripping story.»Dag og Tid «Well-written nightmare»Aftenposten «As a war novel, Blood contains most of the genre’s typical elements such as cold, dirt, venereal diseases, waiting, explosions, blood and misery. [...] Torgrim Eggen is a classic golden pen, agile and light and elegant, even when the subject matter is as grim as here. It is dramatic and eventful.»Dagens Næringsliv

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Eggen has one of Norway's sharpest pens
Anemone Blue
Literature and Fiction2025 · 320 pp

Anemone Blue

Jorid Mathiassen

Three women, two countries, one hidden past – a novel about love, legacy, and resistance. What happens when the past surfaces and casts new light on everything you thought you knew? On a warm day at the end of August, TV photographer Birthe Johannessen travels to Hjartøy, a weather-beaten island off the coast of Northern Norway. She’s there on assignment – but also in search of answers about her own origins. An old letter has revealed an unexpected family connection, and living on the island is a woman who has kept the truth buried for decades: Erle Christensen. For Erle, Birthe’s arrival forces long-suppressed memories into the open. She came to Norway alone, a child refugee from Latvia after the Second World War, and has never dared to look back. Now she must face what she left behind. Could family still remain in Riga? Who was she before she arrived? And what really happened in Latvia, spring 1939? We meet young Agate, living a privileged life in Riga’s cultural bourgeoisie. She falls in love with the idealistic architecture student Andris, but as war approaches and the Soviet grip on the Baltics tightens, both love and liberty are under threat. The decisions she makes will reverberate across borders and generations. Anemone Blue is a sweeping and emotionally charged drama of fate, silence, and rediscovery – a story of women’s lives, lost histories, and the long echoes of war and migration. With scenes set on Norway’s wild and beautiful coastline, in a haunting rural community, and in the shadowed streets of an occupied Latvia, the novel spans decades – from the trauma of war to the present day.

Classic feelgood with a story spanning across several generations
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Bø!
Literature and Fiction2025 · 240 pp

Bø!

Kristin Buvik Sivertsen

Marie is an artist whose career hasn’t taken off, and when her boyfriend breaks up with her, she decides to get her life together. In Bø in Vesterålen, they have abolished wealth tax to attract the “fat cats” and create jobs. In the wake of welcoming Bjørn Dæhli, businessman and former cross-country skier, they have also decided that they need art and culture. On private initiative, they decide to establish a biennale – or Bøennial, as it will come to be known. Marie takes the job of managing the project. Sure, maybe she initially thought it was Bø in Telemark she was applying for a job in, but she looks on the bright side and takes the job regardless. Bø! is a humorous and precise novel about regional Norway, Northern Norway and wealth tax.

The Good Person of Sandvika
Literature and Fiction2025 · 160 pp

The Good Person of Sandvika

Vigdis Hjorth

The Good Person of Sandvika is a tragic and comic novel about economy, gambling, beer, fate, and class. She brings her laptop and sits down at the local pub in Sandvika. She orders a beer, lets the dog sleep under the table, and writes. It's quiet enough to work, but not empty. Over time she begins to recognise the regulars: the young woman who comes in with a lottery ticket every Saturday, the elderly couple who never exchange a word, the quarrelsome man with a handlebar moustache, the world-weary drunkard who ends up crying by the bar. Many of them are waiting for their monthly social security payment. The pub fills up the day the money arrives and empties again when it is all spent. But one evening something happens that turns everything upside down. The Good Person of Sandvika is a novel about differences that aren't always visible from the outside. About drinking alone, yet in fellowship with others. About economic margins and social exclusion, and about a gradual tenderness that grows in silence. Vigdis Hjorth writes personally about life as it is lived, with a precision and nerve that makes the ordinary extraordinary. The pub becomes a place where life stories intersect, dignity is negotiated, and the question of who people can be for each other is asked with greater importance than first assumed. Reviews "A beautiful little novel (…) It is a thought-provoking book by Hjorth, one that is deeply moving." VG, six/six stars The Good Person of Sandvika demands so much of me and touches upon so many sensitive spots. I am shaken and happy to be struck by this novel. It feels good to realize how powerfully literature can impact one, at its best.” BOK365, six/six stars "There can be a lot of life wisdom in a three-minute pop song, but there can certainly also be in a tightly composed and seemingly simple novel." ADRESSEAVISEN, five/six stars “The Good of Author of Sandvika: Amidst all the misery, Hjorth is simply fun to go to the pub with. She definitely has command of language, and a clear, easily recognizable, original voice” DAGSAVISEN "Compassionate with people struggling with big problems. There is something archaic and captivating about the landscape, the station building, and the characters Hjorth evokes in her successful and unsettling modernization of Brecht." MORGENBLADET

Hjorth is one of Norway's most significant contemporary writers
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The Second Heart
Literature and Fiction2025 · 268 pp

The Second Heart

Ida Hegazi Høyer

The Second Heart is a warm and honest story about being someone's next of kin – about alienation and longing for freedom. Ever since she was a child, she has been preparing for her father's weak heart to stop. She doesn't want to be there when it happens, but she's also afraid every time he leaves the house, or the country. Ever since she was a child, she has thought don't go don't go don't go. Her Egyptian father almost dies, time and time again. And when she has become an adult, he needs her in new ways. What responsibility do you have as a child, as offspring? Father and daughter travel between different countries, and swivel between closeness and distance. Does it have to do with their cultures, Egyptian and Norwegian, or is it who they are? «Unlike many books based on the author's own life, The Second Heart actually has something important to say. The result is a reflective and moving story about a father-daughter relationship (...) Analytical and inquisitive, the author creates a nuanced portrait of a complicated man. (...) Precisely this dual movement – between closeness and distance, tenderness and resistance – elevates the book from an ordinary portrait to a work of insightful prose, drawing its threads together towards the end. With The Second Heart, Ida Hegazi Høyer has written a moving account of responsibility, belonging, and loving an imperfect human being. It's damn well done!»VG , five/six stars «... a powerful, brave, and reflective narrative about the relationship between a father and a daughter. [...] Sometimes, narratives can emerge that both illuminate and surprise us about these complicated and difficult relationships we call family.»DAGSAVISEN «The Second Heart shows the interaction between two people who need a certain mixture of distance and closeness to one another. It shows what it means to experience being a child and then become a parent oneself. I think that is what makes this book both necessary and disturbingly powerful.»VÅRT LAND «The Second Heart is at times deeply personal and unflinchingly revealing, bordering closely on the painful and rootlessness. This makes the book's descriptions of the tender and intimate aspects of the father-daughter relationship carry even more weight, and reinforces its credibility as a project of personal reckoning within Ida Hegazi Høyer's own emotional core.»KLASSEKAMPEN

Explores father-daughter bonds across cultures
A fairly troubled novel about women and men and war and peace and tea and terror
Literature and Fiction2025 · 176 pp

A fairly troubled novel about women and men and war and peace and tea and terror

Agnes Kippersund Frogner

A young woman travels to Ireland and Northern Ireland— Dublin and Belfast. She has no job and has not finished high school. She goes to explore the legacy of the conflict between North and South, between the Kingdom and the Republic. She wants to listen to people on both sides. She wants to understand. And in the five days her journey lasts, she believes she can save the world. Have you ever heard anything like it? Agnes K. Frogner’s debut novel is a defence of critical naivety, clear thinking grounded in empathy and altruism. It gives you permission to hope for the best in all people. And that is exactly what nineteen-year-old Agnes does in Ireland: she walks with her backpack, and she sees. She sees that she has landed on the right planet and that it is strange, yes, but still worth fighting for.

The Financial Variations
Literature and Fiction2025 · 176 pp

The Financial Variations

Nils Gullak Horvei

Immediately after the pandemic, interest rates in Norway were very low. To avoid having to work part-time at Vinmonopolet, the author buys some flats he can rent out so he can spend his time walking his dog in the forest and focusing on his writing. But when inflation comes knocking, our hero finds himself under pressure. His wife, the manager of the central bank, wants to raise interest rates to counteract raising prices, while he, of course, wants the interest rates to remain low. The future doesn’t look good. He risks suffering a major blow. The Financial Variations is a funny, frenetic and smart novel with a topical and non-traditional plot.

Angry Youth
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2025 · 232 pp

Angry Youth

Aon Raza Naqvi

Noh sells cigarettes in the school playground. He gets into fights. He skips class and mouths off.The older boys want nothing to do with him, no matter how hard he tries to impress them. Deep down, he’s just a teenage boy trying to find his place—between two cultures, in a town that doesn’t understand him, and in a school system that’s already labelled him a problem. After one incident too many, Noh is forced into ART—Aggression Replacement Training—a program meant to “fix” his behaviour. His therapist, Erling, thinks a few group sessions will teach Noh to control his temper. But Noh’s not angry for no reason. He’s angry at the racism, the double standards, the impossible expectations at home. And he’s angry that no one seems to be listening. Between joint-smoking sessions with his best friend Behzad, awkward crushes, run-ins with older boys, and constant power struggles with adults, Noh is stuck navigating a life where he never quite belongs. He’s smart. He’s funny. And he sees through the bullshit—all of it. Angry Youth is a raw, darkly funny, and brutally honest coming-of-age novel about growing up between cultures, being seen as a threat before being understood, and trying to hold onto yourself in a world that keeps pushing you out. Set in a small Norwegian town in the early 2000s, this powerful, character-driven debut is packed with sharp dialogue, deep social insight, and a voice that refuses to be silenced. NOMINATED FOR THE BRAGE AWARD FOR BEST CHILDREN'S BOOK 2025 NOMINATED FOR THE CRITICS AWARD 2025 «Naqvi writes exceptionally well and engagingly, thanks in part to his use of humour and realistic portrayals of youth environments. Because of this, it's easy to get drawn into the story and, moreover, to finish reading it. Angry Youth could therefore be an excellent book for teenagers who find it difficult to settle down with a long and challenging read. With its fast-paced plot, funny characters, and relatable situations, Angry Youth is a book that can appeal to 'troublemakers', 'high-achievers', and everyone in between.»Framtida, five/six stars A linguistically exuberant novel«...this is a very funny novel for young adult that also deserves adult readers, perhaps precisely because of the convincing youth language it is written in.»Samtiden Young, Angry and Funny«Aon Raza Naqvi's debut novel describes youthful alienation with nuance and intelligence.»Aftenposten

Good Mother
Literature and Fiction2025 · 160 pp

Good Mother

Nora Kristina Eide

Your child comes into the world, you have carried him, and as you look down at him, nothing happens. Life is not infinitely good and meaningful. Love is not absolute. It sounds terrible, but depressive symptoms in connection with childbirth and pregnancy are extremely common, experienced by around 1 in every 10 women. Resistance, coldness, rejection. Negative emotions that in turn create new negative emotions: shame, self-loathing and anger. Good Mother is a strong and dark, but at times also surprisingly comical story about postpartum depression, about the newborn and the newlywed and about the world around them.

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Akeldama
Literature and Fiction2025 · 240 pp

Akeldama

Cornelius C. Steinkjer

After an inevitable breakup, young playwright Matheus Jacobsen retires. He lives on Negroni and Calvados as he tries to gather sufficient courage to take his own life. Although based in Ullevål Hageby, he flits between Oslo, Budapest and the Norwegian south coast. Matheus is convinced that a meaningful existence entails far too much pain, but even though he desperately wants to die, he keeps extending his life’s expiration date. Akeldama is a novel about what drives people to suicide. It is also a sure-footed, desperate and humorous tale of intoxication, debt, friendship and family.

The Hare
Literature and Fiction2025 · 384 pp

The Hare

Lars Saabye Christensen

The Hare is a rich, entertaining, surprising, funny and thought-provoking collection of short stories from one of our foremost authors. The collection consists of twenty short stories move from what might happen when you’re out walking and encounter someone who doesn’t have control of their dog via forgotten and hidden songs to people who “remembered their wedding day but forgot their marriage”. In between, we must do lifesaving, meet a new colleague, learn a round of art history – and several laps of Bislett Stadium. Lars Saabye Christensen is one of Norwegian contemporary literature's most significant writers, and is particularly celebrated for his ability to capture the essence of everyday life with humor and empathy. He is one of true masters of the short story form, as he is able to skillfully crafts memorable characters and poignant moments, employing his keen eye for detail and his talent for revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary. In the short story, Saabye Christensen's unique writing style stands out, brimming with turs of phrases and word plays like only he can. «..short story writing at its finest. This is an absolute must-read!»NETTAVISEN, six/six stars The Master of the Short Story«That distinctive blend of the poignant and the witty, which is Lars Saabye Christensen's trademark, permeates this collection of short stories and makes it a truly rewarding reading experience.»DAGBLADET, five/six stars «A diverse collection of short stories, both short and long, touching and unsettling, beautiful, cheerful and sad.»KLASSEKAMPEN «...short stories that are truly fantastic tales in their most compressed and effective form.»AFTENPOSTEN A Master of Writing the Short Story«...a sophisticated blend of recognisable literary qualities and encounters with astonishing life stories. [...] Lars Saabye Christensen showcases the unruly nature of life in that astonishingly vital and creative language that is uniquely his.»DAGSAVISEN Masterly Short Stories«Not only is Saabye Christensen's language almost unmatched, especially in short pieces, but his characters are also utterly priceless. [...] The Hare. What a text!»FRI FAGBEVEGELSE

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Helplessly Up North
Literature and Fiction2025 · 256 pp

Helplessly Up North

Ebba Eiring

Helplessly Up North is about leaving before one can be abandoned, about travelling north and returning home, and facing an unexpected future even after having closed to door to it a long time ago. Frida flies to Bodø to celebrate her brother's birthday. Their childhood home stands empty, full of memories, and Mads thinks they should clear it out. Their father is in a dementia care home, and their mother is visiting several years after splitting up the family and finding a new husband in Tromsø. Frida has a night out and meets Stian, who offers her beer and an invitation of sorts. Back in Oslo, her partner Jostein seethes. He and Frida have been trying to have a child, but Frida never stopped taking the pill. Will Jostein come to Bodø regardless? How will it go if he comes, and what will happen if he stays in Oslo?