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The Victors
Literature and Fiction2009 · 640 pp

The Victors

Roy Jacobsen

The Victors from 1991 is a grand epic about the rise of the Norwegian social democracy. The novel is divided into two parts. The first takes place at the northwestern coast of Norway, and is a depiction of the hard lives of the poor farmers who were also fishermen in the first half of the 20th Century. The milieu is much the same as in The Unseen, Jacobsen's bestselling novel from 2013. The second part is about the same family, having moved to Oslo. Now we find ourselves in the 60´s, and the narrative has changed to a first person perspective. Some of the characters and the milieu here are recognizable from Jacobsen's novel from 2009, Wonder Child. The Victors marked Roy Jacobsen's great break-through in Norway. It earned him the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, and a nomination to the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. ´A story have not been told better on this side of Hamsun.´VG´This is one of the strongest depictions of poverty and the culture of the impoverished in the Nordic countries that I have read. Roy Jacobsen builds the story with overview and great sense for details. He also has a visible unschooled engagement for class differences that I have not seen the likes of since Martin Andersen Nexø.´ DAGENS NYHETER, Sweden

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Sex, Death and Marriage
Literature and Fiction2009 · 152 pp

Sex, Death and Marriage

Jon Øystein Flink

The narrator of this novel does his very best to kill himself. Why would a 32 year-old Norwegian writer take his own life? We watch as the main character repeatedly tries to kill himself, through his remorse, cowardice, debauchery, marriage, and sodomy until the final scene where he deals the fatal blow at the pub Valka in Oslo. Flink’s narrative is crude, humorous and melodramatic, while being poignant, precise, nuanced and disturbing. Winner of the Youth's Critics Prize! ‘… a convincing piece of literary artwork, somewhere between Christ and Satan.’ VG ‘… brilliantly plotted and well-written. … packed with entertaining devilishness.’ Aftenposten ‘Funny and to the point about trying to kill oneself. … Jon Øystein Flink has not only written a screamingly funny novel, but also an interesting text which touches upon something fundamental in the relation between art and society.’ Dag og Tid 'The story goes from bad to worse and gives the reader a delicious sinking feeling, along with the gripping fear of what the end will bring!' Klassekampen 'Superior Flink' Dagbladet 'A much more daring and meaningfull piece of work than Charlottes Roches Schoßgebete.'youngspeech.de, Germany 'This book takes time before it really hits you, but then it hits you hard!' literatopia.de, Germany 'A totally crazy book! Therefore a must-read!' metalglory.de, Germany 'A disturbing book that really takes you in!' ekz, Germany

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Lazy Days in Mixing Part
Literature and Fiction2009 · 208 pp

Lazy Days in Mixing Part

Erlend Loe

The theater-going Telemann hardly has an alcohol problem and has little love for Germany. His wife, however, has very thick glasses and a love of everything German. They are on vacation with their three children in Mixing Part, south of Munich, at the foot of the Alps in the middle of the Nazi belt. And there is nothing more to be said about that. Well, yes, there is: Telemann is in love with an English woman he has never met. But he pretends that he isn’t. Pretends and pretends. 'Loe makes it easy to laugh at the painful and hard things in life.’Berges Tidende about Stille dager i Mixing Part ‘… some of the funniest writing Loe has done in a long time.’Klassekampen about Stille dager i Mixing Part ‘… a fast read, very funny, somewhat embarrassing and with a satisfactory ending.’NRK about Stille dager i Mixing Part

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Wake Me if I Fall Asleep
Literature and Fiction2009 · 204 pp

Wake Me if I Fall Asleep

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo is a great literary talent and this was the first book in Cappelen Damm’s 20 Under 30 series. This novel takes place in a coastal landscape and the plot is driven by the fact that Grandfather is losing control of the farm and distancing himself from the family. The writer’s sensitive handling of the mundane and his unique ability to bring memories to life makes for great reading. “He had heard rumours about the girl, the grandchild, it is a summer evening and still warm, but he puts on his coat anyway and carries the heavy tools (…) he doesn’t notice that the children are still out in the garden and running themselves ragged chasing one another, that the sore has healed, that the leg hairs are standing on end.”Eivind Hofstad Evjemo received the Tarjej Vesaas First Writers award for this novel. "Impressive debut"DAG OG TID"Evjemos strength is a rare sensibility in vision and language. It bears great promise for things to come."DAGBLADET"A debut with an exceptional mood creating ability, in a beautiful and somewhat sorrowful novel."AFTENPOSTEN

Wonder Child
Literature and Fiction2009 · 265 pp

Wonder Child

Roy Jacobsen

Little Finn lives with his mother at Årvoll, Oslo. During the year of President Kennedy, the Berlin Wall and Jurij Gagarin, life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democratic. But one day a mysterious little half-sister arrives “with an atom-charge in a light blue suitcase” and turns life upside-down. This powerful depiction of childhood shows how both wonderful and dangerous it is to be a child. Winner of the Norwegian Booksellers Award 2009 'What a wonderful novel!'VG'This falls most beautiful tale'VÅRT LAND 'Warm, hurtfull and well modulated about a turningpoint in life.'STAVANGER AFTENBLAD 'A book that makes you laugh and cry – what more can you wish for? That it does not end after 264 pages, but lasts into next week … Wonder Child is nothing less than a perfect masterpiece.' DAGSAVISEN'Wonderful! Wonder Child is a new addition to an extraordinarily rich authorship.' AFTENPOSTEN 'If Wonder Child is not one of the bestselling titles this fall, I don’t understand any of the mechanisms in Norwegian book business.' DAGBLADET

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Lead
Literature and Fiction2008 · 336 pp

Lead

Lars Saabye Christensen

Kim Karlsen, the leading character in the Saabye Christensen novel Beatles, arrives in Oslo by ferry from Denmark. He is looking for meaning, for something to believe in. He finds Vivi... In Lead, Lars Saabye Christensen twists together strands from several of his earlier novels. The author was awarded the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for this novel. ‘You are caught by its magic language – a phosphorescent language that Saabye masters with almost intimidating skill – and that, as well as new perspectives on Oslo, offers us a portrait of a man, Kim.’POLITIKEN, Denmark ‘Lars Saabye Christensen is masterly in his depiction of young love as it teeters between trust and fear, weakness and arrogance.’STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

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The House of Crazy
Literature and Fiction2008 · 372 pp

The House of Crazy

Karin Fossum

I am Hanja. I am not doing well. My life was nice, it really was. But it ended, the niceness. So I jumped through a store window. And then I woke up on the other side, here at Varden - my body covered with 160 stiches. This place is nothing like the outside, that is for sure. People are seriously crazy. My problem is that I do not really see the point of being here, alive. Except for Stetson, I guess. He makes life a little better. And Odin. And Mofa and Maria. And the Angel. But apart from them there is not much to live for. Actually, maybe for Freiner. And Hedda. And the stormcenter and Tussi and Formel and Ruben and Jørgen and Reza. At least they spice up my life, you might say. The House of Crazy is a novel full of dramatic events and destinies, but also episodes and persons rendered with great humour and warmth. Karin Fossum takes care of her characters with tenderness and insight. An outstanding novel.AFTENPOSTENFossums best, so far...DAGSAVISEN

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Third Person Singular
Literature and Fiction2008 · 426 pp

Third Person Singular

Vigdis Hjorth

Hulda Kråkefjær comes from a gifted family. But it is clear that things are not looking good for her: despite her degree in philosophy and her literary talent, Hulda’s love life has shipwrecked more than once. She spends too much time in dingy pubs drinking herself senseless and doing things she regrets. Hulda Kråkefjær is on a path to self-destruction. Why have things gone so badly for her? How could things have gone differently? To what extent can one steer fate? Third Person Singular is a dark story told with lots of energy and humor.

Winters Heart
Literature and Fiction2008 · 160 pp

Winters Heart

Siri M. Kvamme

Liv and Endre live on a beautiful island in Northern Norway with their two children. One day Endre carelessly backs his car over their youngest daughter, who dies. Liv cannot forgive Endre and throws herself into a passionate relationship with Egil. Lea, Liv’s sister, lives on the second floor and sees everything. The sound of galloping horses over the hardpacked snow creates the soundtrack for this powerful novel of loss and love.

Everything I write is true
Literature and Fiction2007 · 176 pp

Everything I write is true

Ellisiv Lindkvist

Everything I write is true, Ellisiv Lindkvist claims. In this book she for example give us the vision of going dancing in the village she comes from, and then tells the tale of her experiences as a prostitute. The texts move between being personal and private. But are they really? The question that lingers is always this: What can a girl really write about? How long will she be a girl? And is there something other than the role of being a mother for us women out there? "In one way or another, Linkvist manages to convey existential seriousness in her texts."DAGBLADET"Tight little stories (...) they contain both desperation and dark humour. (...) I can do nothing but wait for more, however true or not."STAVANGER AFTENBLAD"For she writes well Lindkvist. Sharp, dark, humoristic, and with the ability to balance the personal with the recognizable and communicative."DAGSAVISEN

Detours
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2007 · 64 pp

Detours

Øyvind Torseter

Winner of the BolognaRagazzi Award 2008! Detours (Avstikkere) is an art book and an adventure book. It is neither a typical children’s book nor a typical adult’s book, but it is suitable for children who like to look at pictures and use their imagination. There is no on-going story, but the book has five parts, each with its own story. In addition every picture is a story in itself. Øyvind Torseter is one of Norway’s most prominent illustrators. Several of his books have won prizes.

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A Long Night on Earth
Literature and Fiction2007 · 203 pp

A Long Night on Earth

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Sixty-year-old Claes Otto Gedde, a former Norwegian TV presenter and journalist, has passed the pinnacle of his career and is now on the wane. He’s beginning to realise that people are laughing behind his back. He’s been in Belgium for a few months writing a book about traditional Belgian cuisine, which is to be launched at the book fair in Frankfurt. The book wasn’t a great success. Now he’s looking forward to hibernating in Berlin for the winter, staying in the flat of a dead female friend. He just wants to lie in the dark and listen to the distant sounds of Berlin, knowing that the door is locked and no one can come in. But he doesn’t get the peace he wants. Ingvar Ambjørnsen has written a deeply human, cutting and entertaining novel about a man who feels his life is approaching its end, but gets another chance amongst the living, something which he couldn’t possibly have imagined.