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Scavenger
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2013 · 448 pp

Scavenger

Eystein Hanssen

In an old earth cellar in Vika, a homeless drifter finds the remains of a child. Or is it? Elli investigates the site and discovers more remains. Slowly, the site is further excavated and claustrophobic tunnels and forgotten bunkers are uncovered. It is a world apart, where animals are mistreated and people killed. Only the murderer knows all the exits. But Elli must get in there. She has several lives to protect. Do we really know what exists under the ground in Oslo? This is the fourth book about Elli Rathke, the half Norwegian/half Thai investigator with a black belt in karate. ‘This time, Eystein Hanssen takes us down into very unpleasant tunnels and bunkers underneath the roads and pavements of the city. An interesting journey, as many of them actually exist. In the plot itself, the author also shows us something real, a special environment unknown to many which I have not seen discussed in a novel so far. And the reader does not only get a trip down into the dark spaces under Oslo, but also a trip into the darkest corners of the human mind. … exciting throughout.’ VG ‘Eystein Hanssen is socially engaged and looks at contemporary issues. This time he touches upon various issues such as fauna crime, illegal adoption and the abuse of au pairs. These themes are handled in an interesting way. ...I expected excitement in book number four about Elli and was not disappointed. I think Eystein Hanssen has done it again. He has a unique ability to create thrillers from contemporary issues. This makes for both frightening and exciting reading. There is no shortage of action, and the end in particular is breathtaking. All the loose threads are tied up and solutions are found.’ OPPLAND ARBEIDERBLAD ‘Frightening and brilliant … He keeps the excitement going for 448 pages. You just want to keep reading, and it is almost sad when it’s over.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

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Bella Blu
Literature and Fiction2012 · 272 pp

Bella Blu

Terje Dragseth

Bella Blu: A Space Handbook is something as rare as a collection of sci-fi poetry – a voice from the future. In this work, Terje Dragseth explores a lyrical language that can encompass knowledge about the world from the natural sciences.‘This volume of epic poetry breaks all the constraints that you usually associate with the genre … Bella Blu is an open text and the reader is free to wander, enter and leave.’ FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

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You are not dead until I stop loving you
Literature and Fiction2012 · 160 pp

You are not dead until I stop loving you

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm

«We can get some bad coffee at 7-eleven. We can rent a DVD where the narrative does not take place under water. I can warm your hands with my breath. We can look at the snow. I can stop biting my nails. Even if never is a great word and love an even greater one, I will put bith of those words in a sentence and I will press your chest against mine. I will look down into your light, open face. Pull your hair back. Kiss you where your nose becomes your forehead. And you will tell me to make sure that the wind does not catch you and make you fly away. And I will put my weight on you and tell you that it is impossible for you to fly away.» You are not dead until I stop loving you is a love story from Oslo. A novel about having it all and nothing, all at the same time. But first and foremost it is the story about Iben and Daniel. Love in the time of chaos«A tight, poetic and street-smart saga from the night side of Oslo, about a troubled mind adrift. Believable and feverish at the same time.»VG Hate, death and love«The novelist has a story to tell and the ability to tell it. It is a gripping literary work.»DAG OG TID «The prose is simple and held in a low tone, with almost episodically impressions, moments of sensing that effectively illustrates the short distance between having it all and then being left with nothing.»STAVANGER AFTENBLAD «In quick strokes he draws observant pictures of places and environments that can be both close and recognizeble and at the same time surprisingly strange.»AFTENPOSTEN

You Don't Know Who I Am
Literature and Fiction2012 · 192 pp

You Don't Know Who I Am

Line Nyborg

It is like there is another girl inside me, one that does not want to listen to the voice in the darkness, who wants to tease is, who believe that she can do more, that is drawn to the darkness, forcing it even closer, like she wants it, like she wants to pull the fear out of the shadows and take a look at it face to face, do everything it does not like, the worst, there is another girl inside that wants something more. It is that girl that the fear is there to watch over. You do not know who I am is the stand alone sequel to the debut novel Only Mother, who is God. Elin is twenty years old and has moved from the north of Norway to Oslo to attend school. As the novel begin, she is alone with a new-born baby.

Selected Essays
Literature and Fiction2012 · 304 pp

Selected Essays

Stig Sæterbakken

Stig Sæterbakken (1966-2012) was known as an author that would not shy away from painful subjects under debate. He was also one of our foremost essayists. In this book we have selected some of the highlights from almost 20 years of exploring the possibilities of the genre. Here you find critical and enthusiastic studies of writers like Samuel Beckett, William Faulkner, Søren Kirkegaard and Louis-Fernand Céline, artists like Emanuel Vigeland and Joel-Peter Witkin, a wide essay discussing the post-war use of Adolf Hitler as a metaphor for evil, as well as specializing in topics like ethics, anxiety, having a death wish, holiness, melancholia, tenderness, obscenity, beauty, identity and being well dressed. The selection is gathered from the collections Aesthetic Bliss (Estetisk salighet - 1994), The Evil Eye (Det onde øye - 2001) and Dirty Things (2010), and the bonus track "Sacred Tears" that is published in a book for the first time. The afterword is written by Anders Johansson, PhD in Literature at the University of Umeå and critic in Swedish Aftonbladet.

The Studio Apartment
Literature and Fiction2012 · 168 pp

The Studio Apartment

Lotta Elstad

One man. One woman. One more woman. A humid week in late summer – a studio apartment – a kitchen worktop – a teacup – a basket of lemons – a caress – a data cable – a cashmere sweater – a blue day pass – a warm breeze – a light yawn – a warrant for an arrest. You know the story. The Studio Apartment (Ettromsleiligheten) is a novel inspired by leaked interview reports from the Julian Assange scandal that took place in Sweden. The plot concentrates on the Wikileaks founder’s visit to Stockholm in the late summer of 2010; a visit that resulted in an accusation of rape by two Swedish women. The novel does not delve into whether the accusations were lawful, but instead draws attention elsewhere and asks more fundamental questions about betrayal, double-dealing and the relationship between “edited” and “unedited” reports of reality. In the same way it questions the Wikileaks project itself, as well as the wave of documentary literature that this novel itself forms a part of. ‘Elstad’s ambition to portray Assange’s days in Stockholm in the same fragmented, documentary style as dominates on Wikileaks’ own web pages succeeds in grabbing the reader’s attention.’ DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ‘Lotta Elstad writes about Julian Assange without heroic facts and draws on the relationship between readers and the media … By neglecting to assign a name to the characters or organisations to which they belong, Elstad makes it possible to include a wealth of information in a format digestible for readers.’ MORGENBLADET

Before the Snow Arrives
Literature and Fiction2012 · 464 pp

Before the Snow Arrives

Britt Karin Larsen

Poverty rules in the Finn Forest. People are leaving for Christiania or even America, and many of the smallholdings are abandoned. But this book, fourth in the critically acclaimed series about the Finn Forest community, also offers hope. Noppi-Mattis is still using magic runes to protect against the threat of bad times to come; Lina and Taneli's youngest daughter Martha has promised her parents that Mostamägg will never stand empty. ‘A monument to Finnskogen. ... Everything is described in superb language, the characters come across as vivid and true-to-life and the descriptions of nature are brilliant. The author’s awareness of the interactions between plants, people and animals is impressive. Historical novel series will never get better than this.’ VG ‘Magnificent! ... This is literature on the grand scale, also by international standards. ... It’s the best! ... It is like intoxication but one that you want to last and last.’DAGBLADET ‘Warm and intense ... Britt Karin Larsen impresses with the skill with which she sustains both the intensity and the huge scope of her Finnskogen novels. ... She continues to produce superlative novels.’HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD ‘Britt Karin Larsen has now written the fourth novel in the series about the people in Finnskogen, and she has yet again done it with complete engagement and deep insight, in audacious narrative passages that deal with brutal fate as well as with her magical, mystical sense of liaison with nature.’DAG OG TID ‘The author combines extensive knowledge, understanding and also skill in the art of storytelling. The novels about Finnskogen by Britt Karin Larsen are among the most powerful and dramatic tales that contemporary literature has to offer.’ NRK P2

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A Hundred Thousand Hours
Literature and Fiction2012 · 136 pp

A Hundred Thousand Hours

Gro Dahle

2012 is a jubilee year twice over for Gro Dahle. She celebrates 25 years as a writer and also, on the 15th May, her 50th birthday. This is the background to this new edition of A Hundred Thousand Hours, her 1996 collection of poetry, which became a classic. Steinar Opstad has written a new Afterword and, recorded on an included CD, the author reads the entire collection. Gro Dahle is one of the most loved of contemporary poets. Audience (1987) was the first of her seven collections. She has written for both adults and children, in many genres, and been awarded several literary prizes. She is particularly well known for her poetic books for children on themes which are normally not well covered. Her first novel for adults was The House in the Snow (Huset i snøen, 2006). Gro Dahle is also a highly regarded literary consultant and lecturer. A Hundred Thousand Hours is a collection of poems about the family, especially about mothers and daughters. «Gro Dahle writes intensely well about the bonds between mothers and their children.»Margreta Tveisme, Dag og Tid«I feel as if exposed to a 100 000 kWh charge and am still in shock.»Jan Jakob Tønseth, Dagbladet«... a definitive breakthrough in a great record of writing: poetry that deserves the widest readership. I am at a loss to think how to recommend this book in the best possible way.»Tore Renberg, Stavanger Aftenblad

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I Should Have Locked You Up
Literature and Fiction2012 · 144 pp

I Should Have Locked You Up

Hilde Lindset

En far konfronterer sønnen med overgrepsbeskyldninger, en musikklærer kjører en omvei med sin altfor unge elev, og en helt alminnelig dverg utøver en merkelig makt over et reisende par. Hilde Lindset skriver konsentrerte noveller om det tilsynelatende hverdagslige, men som hele tiden presses mot det underforståtte og metaforiske.

I can see in the dark
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2012 · 224 pp

I can see in the dark

Karin Fossum

Riktor doesn´t ask the policeman why he has stormed into his house without knocking - he´s certain that someone has finally realised what happened that day. As the policeman questions him, however, Riktor realises that he´s being accused of something completely unexpected - something he has nothing to do with. But can Riktor convince the policeman that he´s innocent of one wrongdoing without revealing that he´s guilty of another, far more terrible, crime? The storytelling is outstanding...Dark, brilliant and guaranteed to leave you feeling queasy.CRIMEFICTIONLOVER Fossum´s elucidation of the criminally degenerate mind is first-rate.DAILY MAIL A superb writer of psychological suspense.NEW YORK TIMES Fossum writes humane thrillers, which perturb and chill.OBSERVER

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Long Live the Post Horn!
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2012 · 184 pp

Long Live the Post Horn!

Vigdis Hjorth

Winner of the Critics’ Award 2012 Ellinor is a communications consultant in her thirties. She can’t help but feel that her life is lacking meaningful intensity, that her life is a trivial contrast to her feelings of despair. When a colleague suddenly leaves the firm Ellinor has to see through a project all by herself. By teaching postal workers in Postkom about media, influence and politics, Ellinor is supposed to better equip them in their opposition to the implementation of EU’s Postal Legislation. However, the question arises; who is teaching whom?Norwegian reviews: ‘If you are looking for a novel about loneliness and the postal service, chose this one. ... It is practically impossible to decide where to begin when discussing Hjorth’s novels. They are immediate, but also stay with you, kicking around in your mind for a good while afterwards. This time, the story even manages to combine politics, the postal service and a lonely young woman. Can this really be of interest? Yes, it can, when Hjorth does it.’ VG ... a fantastic book. There are few contemporary writers who explore loneliness with greater courage. Hurrah for Hjorth! KLASSEKAMPEN I’ve rarely experienced such high from a novel as from Vigdis Hjorth’s new work about the European Union’s postal directive. ... One of her very best books. ... I’m almost tempted to shout Long live Vigdis Hjorth! AFTENPOSTEN Vigdis Hjorth's Leve posthornet! deserves applause for many things, not least for being something as improbable as a successful political novel about (hold tight now!) the postal directive. ... In every way, a very worthwhile novel by Vigdis Hjorth. BERGENS TIDENDE Few writers can describe a woman near the edge as Hjorth can. ... It is almost the most engaging element in this book. And perhaps also the most original. Hjorth foregrounds politics, not the international kind, but the grey local authority dealings – and shows us its crucial role in our lives. This, in a novel whose apparently most straightforward formulations contain within them an ambiguity and depth that is uniquely Hjorth’s. DAGBLADET Hidden inside the novel lies a small pearl of a story about a letter that only arrived at its destination because the postman truly committed himself to find the proper addressee. This makes Leve posthornet! into more than the narrative about a communication advisor and the postal directive. It also follows that Hjorth’s novel is not primarily about atomised contemporary individuals or nostalgia for letters written by hand, but about communication. If you decide to read one novel about the postal directive this year, it should be this one. DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV An impressive journey of purification. ... In Leve posthornet! , Vigdis Hjorth immerses herself in existential seriousness. Her book is a loud scream; Hjorth has written a powerful novel about identity, authenticity and about making courageous choices ... her perceptions are acute and she writes very well. VÅRT LAND ... when Hjorth takes on the problematic issues of politics and of life in general, with her familiar wit and existential courage, all you can do is give in. DAG OG TID It is great feat to write something as rare as a political and personal novel without creating something that is both dull and too internalised. As always, she composes brilliantly precise sentences, with her utterly unique fingertip feel for flow and choice of words. DAGSAVISEN A rare, realistic, not-post-modern box of candies: a story about politics, poetry and melancholy. ADRESSEAVISEN International Reviews:Quirky, unsettling.KIRKUS REVIEWS The ordinary becomes vibrant and life-affirming in Long Live the Post Horn!, an engrossing novel about how even hopeless battles are worth fighting.FOREWORD REVIEWS Hjorth’s substantive and witty novel of personal growth delivers on multiple levels.PUBLISHERS WEEKLY An emotional, philosophical read … this book is wonderful, and I would urge you to seek it out.ELSPELLS BOOKS A superb story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.THE MODERN NOVELWrenching tenderness from the mouth of irony, Hjorth proves how major effects don’t always come from the heavy-foot pedals.John Freeman, LIT HUB (Most Anticipated Books of 2020) Long Live the Post Horn! is a brilliant study of the mundane, full of unexpected detours and driving prose … Hjorth’s novel ingeniously orbits the intimate stories that are possible only when a character has put words on paper and sent them through the post.John Freeman, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW An engaging, well-honed novel … Hjorth’s writing is both spare and, in an understated way, humorous.POPMATTERS A wry and thoughtful take on contemporary life and love … Full of gorgeous Scandi gloom and bleak truths about human relationships.DAILY MAIL [In] Long Live the Post Horn!, the saga of the EU postal directive is an inspired context for a story about personal despair and political awakening.4COLUMNS An acidic portrait of one woman’s fight to save the postal service.NEW REPUBLIC Hjorth holds a magnifying glass to her characters and they fry like ants under the merciless sunlight of her writing. No one of them escapes unscathed, there are no heroes or villains; what we get is a picture of life in a social democracy that is fraying at the edges.Charlotte Barslund, translator of Long Live the Port Horn! in LITERARY HUB Hjorth expertly interrogates feelings of inadequacy in concise paragraphs of wry prose.NEW STATESMAN Droll and rather delightful.MONOCLE A novel about the chicanery of governmental politics has no right to be this absorbing.MORNING STAR A big strange wonderful paper hug of a book … I cannot recommend it highly enough.LITERARY ADDICT Hjorth asks us to imagine a world where those with narrative power protect the stories of the people over the interests of commerce … The timing was right for this book in Norway in 2012, and the timing is right for us now. A novel like Long Live the Post Horn! does not come around often enough.LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOK

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Ghosts in the Night
Literature and Fiction2012 · 176 pp

Ghosts in the Night

Siri M. Kvamme

Six years ago, Lisa and Lars lost touch with their only child, their son Aksel. He was fourteen years old when he vanished without a trace. Lisa cannot bear to give up hoping that, one day, they will find out what happened to their son, but Lars seems able to carry on with his life. The story, in which Lisa and Lars share their central roles with a neighbour and a tenant, takes place during a string of sunny summer days on an idyllic island. Erotic tension and misguided desires grow between the characters; then lies and secrets follow. The real issue is whether Lisa and Lars can have any relationship after Aksel's disappearance. Is clinging to hope worse than facing up to hopelessness?