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ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
Literature and Fiction2014 · 72 pp

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

Håkon Øvreås

In Kjærlighet er den Ting, we follow a couple from their first whirlwind romance to their more trivial everyday lives but always with faith, hope and love. Øvreås' straightforward and simple language makes for fun and rewarding reading. Partly explicit, partly heartfelt, never boring.

Krø
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Literature and Fiction2014 · 216 pp

Krø

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm

Krø is a neo-gothic horror novel about Adam, an orphan exjunkie with a family, permanent job and White World – a selfdeveloped 3D programme he can hide inside when life gets tough. One day Adam receives a letter. His grandfather, Ingvald, is at death's door and wants him to travel to Krø, a windswept island off the west coast. Adam travels from the safety of Oslo to this godforsaken island against his will.Adam discovers that Krø plays host to more than loneliness and a broken family. Why are the locals so hostile? What's behind the secret door in the basement? Who is the figure constantlypursuing him in White World? Soon Adam faces the greatest question of all: how far are you willing to go to save the ones you love? ‘Insidious thriller about a city boy who travels to the windswept west coast. Everyday lives from the pen of a dark, gothic creator of universes.’KLASSEKAMPEN

Operation Hydra
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2014 · 320 pp

Operation Hydra

Johnny Brenna / Sigbjørn Mostue

A young Jewish boy is brutally knocked down and scarred for life outside Ila school in Oslo. The same day, someone sets fire to the house of a prominent but controversial Norwegian politician. A mother of two is killed in the blaze. This is just the prelude to a wave of violent attacks against the Norwegian population. One thing that seems to connect these events is Norway's MiddleEastern politics.Axel Th. Munthe, undercover detective in Oslo police force's special operations department is brought in early in the case. Both he and the security service work hard to combat various different extremist groups, but they find themselves struggling to keep up as things escalate. Finally the threat is directed at the heart of what it is to be Norwegian: the independence day parade on Karl Johan street. Meanwhile, Axel tries to get his regular partner Tobben back on his feet following a personal breakdown. All while the clock is ticking and the decisive hour draws nearer for Axel and thenation of Norway. ‘Operasjon Hydra is solid literary crime writing in which the authors chase us through the pages. ... The fact that I have decided to read Mostue and Brenna’s two first novels also speaks volumes.’FÆDRELANDSVENNEN‘Mostue and Brenna write well with great flow and suspense. I can’t fault them.’5/6MOSS AVIS‘... the book deserves at least five out of six as it has received from most other reviewers. I look forward to a follow-up. The rest of you should keep your fingers crossed for Christmas.’EIDSVOLL ULLENSAKER BLAD

The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen
Literature and Fiction2014 · 288 pp

The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen

Bjørg Vik

In the years after the war, Elsi Lund is a young girl facing confirmation, friendships, infatuations, and the first tentative steps toward adulthood. She moves between new environments and crossroads — from the cramped tenement building on St. Hanshaugen to secondary school and gymnasium and experiences both the freedom and the limitations that come with them. Through Elsi, post-war Oslo is reflected: a city in transition, marked by class divisions, dreams, and the emergence of a new era. With her distinctive eye for detail, and with warmth, humour, and precision, Bjørg Vik portrays how small events can have big ripple effects in a young person’s life. The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen is both a historical portrait and a gripping coming-of-age novel — a story about longings, coincidences, and the struggle to find one’s own way. The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen is the standalone continuation of Small Keys, Big Rooms, and the second volume in Bjørg Vik’s unforgettable trilogy about Elsi Lund.

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Restraint
Literature and Fiction2014 · 176 pp

Restraint

Stig Sæterbakken

Andreas Feldt meets his oldest daughter, Marit, to take care of a financial matter. It has been years since they last saw each other. Seeing her again brings him out of balance, and in a confused moment he tells the daughter that he is divorcing her mother. This impulsive lie does not only destroy the conversation with the daughter, but also put doubt in his own mind about his own existence, shaped by routine and the people around him. A glaring suspicion awakens. It is like he has a blind spot in his memory. Is there something he has forgotten, something he does not want to, or is not capable of remembering? Restraint (Selvbeherskelse) can be read as a burlesque comedy and a dark tragedy. "Stig Sæterbakkens Restraint is a intensely exploring novel. That people loose self control happens all the time. And you are supposed to have certain feelings. But what if restraint is the only think keeping you from loosing your mind? (...) With his fourth novel Sæterbakken envisions his abilities to describe some of the least graspable aspects of human existence. Stig Sæterbakken himself appears as an insightful, independent and artistically reflected novel writer, with a book that you can only congratulate him on writing."DAGBLADET

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Say You´re Sorry
Literature and Fiction2014 · 240 pp

Say You´re Sorry

Roy Jacobsen

Roy Jacobsen´s authorship contains a number of great and well known novels - The Victors, Frost, The Burned out town of Miracles, Wonder Child and The Unseen, to name but a few. Less known is that he is also a writer of exquisite short stories, and has so far written four collections with great strength and intensity, and they have earned him both the Tarjei Vesaas First writers award and The Norwegian Critics Award for his short stories. Jacobsen´s short stories are full of surprises, and tend to leave behind a mysterious lingering feeling, that keeps you challenged. Say you´re sorry is a selection of thirteen of his short stories, showing how masterful this writer can be, also in short form. "I do not mind getting older, when I see the heir I have." KJELL ASKILDSEN

Siamese
Literature and Fiction2014 · 208 pp

Siamese

Stig Sæterbakken

"The light had gone out in the bathroom when I entered this morning. He had of course not noticed. He was sitting there in the pitch dark and chewing gum, like he always does, when I opened the door and the light from the hallway that fell sideways into the room cut him in two - I could see the back of the chair and the back of his head, nothing more - silver gum paper sparkling like valuable, swirling silently around his chair." In a typical suburban apartment lives Erna and Edwin, an elderly couple. He is blind and paralyzed from the waist down, and spends all the hours of the day in a chair in the bathroom. He thinks, chews gum and is tended by his wife. They have little or no contact with the world around them, and keep terrorizing each other in old and habitual patterns. They are both the "I" in this gloomy and absurd chamber play.

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DANGER OF AVALANCHES
Literature and Fiction2014 · 72 pp

DANGER OF AVALANCHES

Maria Tryti Vennerød

Maria Tryti Vennerød worked on the blog project "Five seasons" throughout 2013. There she commented on large and small political and private events using poetic/dramatic language. She collaborated with Det norske teatret to turn this into four stunt performances around the country before the final full stop was added to the third scene. A selection of texts were woven together to create exciting and humorous theatre. Skredfare is political literature in the form of poetry.

FINISH YOUR BOOK ABOUT YOUR LIFE
Literature and Fiction2014 · 80 pp

FINISH YOUR BOOK ABOUT YOUR LIFE

Linda Klakken

In the long poem Finish the book about your life (Skriv ferdig boka om livet ditt), we follow Norwegian-Armenian Adam Zamjatin in his meeting with what we like to call the new, modern Norway. A meeting between absolute democratic requirements, you might say, and abandoned democratic ideals. As one of “the others” in Norwegian society, Adam faces countless unforeseeable challenges. He wants, like so many others, to remain individual, even if this means he is never accepted. Finish the book about your life ditt is an empathetic long poem which considers whether it's really wrong to ask for help, wrong to need help, wrong to get by without help. Linda Klakken (1979–) lives in Oslo. She debuted in literary fiction with the poetry collection Mother, Wife, Slave (Mamma, kone, slave) in 2013.

AS THE TREE FALLS
Literature and Fiction2014 · 494 pp

AS THE TREE FALLS

Britt Karin Larsen

Winner of the Dobloug prize A farmhand comes to one of the big farms in Finnskogen, Valkola,and steals the aging Valborg's heart. Across the ocean, Amy finds a friend among the Native Americans. This new friend has abrother she also meets.?Nils and Elin, who now live in Oslo, dream about the smallholding they're going to buy. Will their dream ever become reality? Daniel, Taneli and Lina's son, who once dreamt of seeing his homeland and Finnskogen again, falls ill aboard the ship from America. The god child is still waiting for Karin with the beautiful voice to come home from America.The plot in Britt Karin Larsen'sSlik treet faller switches between those who emigrated to America and the remaining Forest Finns in Kristiania and Finnskogen. In this novel, the seventh in the series, events move up to the Second World War, when the Forest Finns are hit just as hard as the rest of Norway. Many of those growing up in Finnskogen are living in poverty, and things don't get any better when most of them turn to communism and are therefore not allowed to work.It is perhaps in portraying the strength and solidarity possessed by these distinguished and vulnerable people that Britt Karen shows her greatness as an author. ‘Beautiful, poetic and magnificent.’6 out of 6 VG‘Most of all, it is the intimate details that draw us in. Here you will find love and jealousy, longing and sorrow, and most of all destiny. ... The novel is a mosaic of short episodes that together constitute a great drama of destiny about small yet strong people in the mighty and merciless maelstrom of time that will not stop for anything or anyone.’DAG OG TID ‘What is most compelling is how she manages to maintain the action without any deadlocks, especially with a huge cast of characters that are always developing. ... Her novels are about mankind’s longing to fit in even though the urge to withdraw is just as strong. And it is in the tension between these forces that this wide-ranging family chronicle evolves.’HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD‘This is classic storytelling from the heart and mind, using a poetic language that gives literary lift.’DAGSAVISEN ‘Poetic and beautiful … Britt Karin Larsen’s very personal and lyrical language sets her apart from other Norwegian writers.’VG about SOM STEINEN SKINNER‘Fantastic stories from Finnskogen Himmelbjørnens skog is an unexpectedly rich and earthy tale, crudely expressed and yet sophisticated. Superb!’ADRESSEAVISEN about HIMMELBJØRNENS SKOG ‘Britt Karin Larsen’s prose is sheer poetry and she has a great capacity for engagement.’WERMLANDIA, SWEDEN about DET VOKSER ET TRE I MOSTAMÄGG

Smut
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2014 · 192 pp

Smut

Lene Ask / Martin Ernstsen / Lars Fiske / Sindre Wexelsen Goksøyr / Flu Hartberg / Anders Nordmo Kvammen / Sigbjørn Lilleeng / Tor Erling Naas / Inga Sætre

Smut (Smuss) is a collection of erotic comic strips from some of Norway’s best-known comic strip artists. Style and form varies throughout, but the contributions all share a concern with the beautiful, embarrassing and peculiar aspects of eroticism. First love, a librarian’s erotic fantasies, a robot’s visit to a brothel and the escapades of a sailor are just some of the stories collected in this collection. Comics by: Lene Ask, Martin Ernstsen, Lars Fiske, Sindre Wexelsen Goksøyr, Flu Hartberg, Anders Nordmo Kvammen, Sigbjørn Lilleeng, Tor Erling Naas and Inga Sætre. ‘[an] anthology spanning a very wide spectrum, […] The quality is [otherwise] uniformly high, and even though the stories express a lot of anxiety and frustration, the tone is generally positive.’SERIENETT.NO ‘The book is attractive and well compiled. Many of the stories start with us looking at something we’re not supposed to. A nice concept that connects the stories and reminds us of our voyeuristic tendencies.’DAGSAVISEN ‘Smuss is a sympathetic and varied anthology on the subject of sex […] There is a lot of variation in style and narrative, and the new illustrations bring a certain freshness to the anthology.’MORGENBLADET

Small Keys, Big Rooms
Literature and Fiction2014 · 224 pp

Small Keys, Big Rooms

Bjørg Vik

Elsi Lund is four years old when the war breaks out in Norway. She grows up in Oslo in a tenement building that is poor and overcrowded, yet rich in stories. With an unparalleled ability to capture scents, moods and small moments, Bjørg Vik portrays an environment and an era unlike any other writer. Here there is both toil and struggle, but also dreams, secrets and longings that shape people's lives. Small Keys, Big Rooms is the first volume in the critically acclaimed Elsi Lund trilogy, which together offers a uniquely powerful portrait of post-war Oslo as seen through the eyes of a young girl.

A Norwegian classic from a pioneering feminist voice
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