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I Have Colleagues
Literature and Fiction2023 · 240 pp

I Have Colleagues

Camilla Bogetun Johansen

I Have Colleagues is a novel about labour. Luckily I got a job. With the municipality. What are your thoughts on being beaten? the interviewer asked me. With tenderness, candor and comedy, author Camilla Bogetun Johansen writes about the physical and mental reality of being a care worker.. We meet the geology student, the chef, the telemarketer, the former hand model, the artist, the unskilled employees, the social worker and more. Their common ground is that they work in a caregiving home for mentally disabled autists. What kind of work is it to be a care worker? And who is the care worker? I Have Colleagues is a novel about manual labor, dreams, money – and being a body in search of a safe place.

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I Hope You Are Doing Ok
Literature and Fiction2023 · 80 pp

I Hope You Are Doing Ok

Ole-Petter Vaaten

Ole-Petter Vaaten’s poetry collection I Hope You Are Doing Ok explores the idea of longing. Longing for life as it used to be. Longing for someone to need you. Longing for those who are gone. Longing for love. At the same time Vaaten’s poetry is exploring getting used to longing. For example, that piece of the sky that existed over the house you grew up in. Some of the poems also hint at a growing sense of unease about what’s awaiting you in the future, such as old age and death. Some of the poems describe a general unease about a world which is changing at an increasingly higher speed, with unforeseen events such as pandemics, war, and terror – and as part of this a worry not only about how the narrator will handle it, but also about his family. Yet, as the title so hopefully puts it: I hope you are doing ok.

The Kamelia Box
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2023 · 304 pp

The Kamelia Box

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

At Sommersholm, the Adler family, the servants and the household stand on the threshold of the year 1867.During the Christmas ball, Rose caused a scandal because she invited her horse groom Torkel. Rose's father, County Administrator Adler is furious, and wants to send off his daughter to the family in Denmark. But no one can control another's heart, least of all one that is young and in love.Meanwhile, Alise despairs over the engagement between Birk and Miss Aurelia Collett – the beautiful but unscrupulous merchant's daughter from Christiania, who does everything in her power to capture the heart of Sommersholm's heir.One of Alice's dearest possessions is the kamelia box, which she inherited from her grandmother, and which once belonged to Mrs. Juliane, the Countess at Sommersholm. But Alise discovers that the box is more than a testimony to her grandmother's life as a chambermaid. For decades, it has hidden another story, from another life destiny.

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The Chimera Awakens
Literature and Fiction2023 · 192 pp

The Chimera Awakens

Lina Ulvestad Halås

‘’Someone else’s hands are washing me in the morning, doing my make-up, lifting my hair up and tying it in a bun. I am watching someone touch someone else’s body but can feel the touch on my own.” A lecture at the university discusses the possibility of freezing the brain of people who have died, with the idea to wait for the technology which allows them to bring the brain back to life in a new body. Kim volunteers, without further consideration. Suddenly she wakes up in the future. The technology they have been waiting for now exists, but the programme is shut down due to concerns that it is unethical. Kim is one of very few so-called chimeras. Kim was a committed student with a future at a Greenpeace arrangement in Antarctica, but the life she used to live belongs to the past and she accepts a job as a maid at a hotel. After a while her memory starts to fail, and large parts of her life disappear from her. She begins to seek refuge in the world of games, and her avatar gradually becomes a larger part of the life Kim believes to be living. The Chimera Awakens addresses popular culture and the role of modern technology and its influence on our lives.

Dear Brother, Little Sister
Literature and Fiction2023 · 272 pp

Dear Brother, Little Sister

Sophia Saenger

Lucie and Kristoffer have grown up together, but they are not biological siblings. They were both foster children in an extremely religious home and have always had a special relationship. On summer holiday with two friends and Kristoffer’s girlfriend Amanda a worrying situation unfolds. Flashbacks to their teenage years tell the story of how an “illegal” sexual tension builds up between Lucia and Kristoffer, and in the present Kristoffer wobbles between his foster sister and his girlfriend. He resists it but is nonetheless pulled to Lucie again and again, she seems to have a magnetic power over him. Is the relationship between the foster siblings natural, or is it in fact problematic in the way their surroundings seem to signalise? Is it mostly harmful because those around them say it is? This is an uncomfortable novel propelled forward by a strong drive and a sharp look at taboo relationships.

Marathon Shots
Literature and Fiction2023 · 96 pp

Marathon Shots

Geir Nummedal

A man in the middle of his life is preparing for his first marathon in Dresden, but ends up going all in the night. Still, he receives a starting number and begins running. In Marathon Shots we follow a 42195-metre-long race with many associative digressions along the way. With music in his ears the rhythm of the race propagates through both in his body and mind, where the stream of consciousness of the marathon runner becomes its own race within a race. Before he reached the end line, he has also run through his life. He passes the parks of Dresden, crosses bridges, sees a bald man running with a pineapple attached to his head, he takes shots from drinking stations that often miss his mouth, instead splashing on his shirt or the ground. The experience of running mixes with the experiences of life, from erotic fantasies to childhood memories, glimpses of his father at work in the welding hall, the letters his father sent home from a worktrip to China. The author Dag Solstad has stated that joggers are outside walking their fear of death, which is very possible. The narrator of Geir Nummedal’s Marathon Shots isn’t scared of walking his fear of death, walking his rooms of remembrance, which has resulted in this particularly lively read.

My Dotted Sister
Literature and Fiction2023 · 80 pp

My Dotted Sister

Hilde Charlotte Blomberg

Hilde Charlotte Blomberg’s debut poetry collection My Dotted Sister is about learning to live with mental disorder. My Dotted Sister is a prose poem collection about longing, joy, loneliness, help, art, and cats. But mostly it’s about being oneself. The plot? It’ll be a terrific journey, all the way to Japan, looking for the famous Yayoi Kusama, with a mourning nurse called Grete tagging along. The style? Minimalistic, naïve, wild, imaginative, dreaming. The inspiration? Yayoi Kusama and her dotted universe. Art! The life of the artist! (Looking for a family, someone to be close to, is an important topic for the author.) Loneliness, being different, being allowed to be different.

Mother When She Waves from the Train
Literature and Fiction2023 · 104 pp

Mother When She Waves from the Train

Emely Benedicte Kahrs

Emely Benedicte Kahrs’ poetry collection Mother When She Waves from the Train is about Nelly and her mother who live and eat and do their laundry together, about the need to break out, the fear of losing, dancing, falling in love, abortion pills, liberation. Nelly starts by writing poetry on napkins.

The Narcisisst
Literature and Fiction2023 · 240 pp

The Narcisisst

Erling Simon

Jim’s grandma is dying, and he has to clean up the empty house. This process puts him in touch with a childhood that wasn’t necessarily happy, and which made him, despite his talent, quit playing music, the thing he loved the most, when he was 15 years old. His childhood is well documented by his father, an internationally recognised photo artist. His father’s pictures of Jim as a child shows Jim and his older brother, Aksel, in scenes characterised by jealousy and fighting over their father’s favour. Jim’s artistic gifts made him and his father very close, but the weeks alone in his grandma’s house leads Jim to find signs of how his father’s actions poisoned his relationship with his older brother. The Narcissist is a novel about fathers and sons. About the mechanisms which hold them together, about a father’s self-assertion, and about love and trust that grow weaker. Intimate and controlled language shows up close how our view of reality sometimes can be shaken up; an existential experience which many can recognize. This is a novel about those who have stopped trusting their loved ones, or who no longer has their loved ones’ trust.

Rainbow Trout and Boiled Rice
Literature and Fiction2023 · 80 pp

Rainbow Trout and Boiled Rice

Terje Dragseth

A couple cooks dinner together and their conversation moves from everyday reflections about the meal to living “half as a whole, or the other way around”. Around their legs their cats are living their best lives. As always in author Dragseth’s poetry there is a strong creative power combined with the desire to explore the edges and possibilities of language. An easy-to-read and thought-provoking little book that is equally as suitable in the living room, on an airplane, or a train as on the beach.

Rich Are Those Who Have the Forest
Literature and Fiction2023 · 192 pp

Rich Are Those Who Have the Forest

Amalie Kasin Lerstang

Eva Brattheim lives a normal life in a normal town. One thing she particularly enjoys: Going for walks in the nearby forest. One day Eva reads in the local paper that there are plans to build a motorway straight through the forest where she takes her walks. To Eva it is obvious – the road must be stopped. But how? With help from her capable sister, Eva attempts to navigate her way through the local government’s bureaucratic structures and the hierarchy of the local community. How does one actually write an opinion piece? And who wants to disagree with people they look up to, who wants to disagree with their handy neighbour who needs a job and who’s also in a feud with the county antiquary? Midway through the process, Eva falls head over heels for a brilliant case manager in the local government. Could she be the one to help Eva stop this motorway? Rich Are Those Who Have the Forest is a funny and subtle novel about impotence and love, about the relationship between human and nature getting lost, about an all-consuming crush, pine trees, garbage bins, about the fear of having an opinion in the local newspaper, and not least: about standing in the way of development. «... tender and comical ... The forest is kind and smells good, says a friend of mine, and I think that there is something fundamentally kind, a closeness and slightly modest about this novel, which I appreciate. Lerstang does not paint a high sky above her topics, but it is a stroke of heaven that I, as a reader, can thrive under.»Klassekampen «... a gem about what it's like to losing a piece of your local nature.»Morgenbladet «A funny and subtle novel with a serious, underlying topic.»Sandefjords blad

The Rooms' Book
Literature and Fiction2023 · 88 pp

The Rooms' Book

Helene Imislund

Helene Imislund’s poetry follows a child through the first hazy memories of a room. The poems move through the concrete and the experienced, between rooms that once were and places that still exist. And when the rooms are explored specifically, the question of memory also arises – which rooms are we able to remember? Is it possible to remember an event without remembering the room where it took place?

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