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WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT
Literature and Fiction2018 · 208 pp

WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Although Pietro is mentioned in Marco Polo's will, we know very little about him. Towards the end of his life he finds shelter among the fire people in the city of Yazd, where he tells his story. He describes street fights in foreign countries, but also a woman for whom he still longs for. And the necessity of having a dog for a friend. When you least expect it is a beautiful story of the type only Bringsværd can write.

THE MAYOR OSLO
12…789…2021
Literature and Fiction2018 · 336 pp

THE MAYOR OSLO

Stig Aasvik

The Mayor of Oslo continues where the critically acclaimed Lofotveggen left off. The main character is being hounded by the Unemployment Office. He still needs a job. We find him on a job-seekers course, at the café, on a trip to Australia, at football training with his son, back to his mother's sudden death, the break-up and arguments with his father. The Major of Oslo is a dark, funny, desperate and original novel.

THE REST OF THE DAYS WILL DROWN IN THE FJORD
Literature and Fiction2018 · 240 pp

THE REST OF THE DAYS WILL DROWN IN THE FJORD

Rune Salvesen

Vilde has few friends, and works hard because ther mother has a genetic disorder. One of few bright spots in her life is her love for Stig. To support Vilde, he decides not to travel to Utøya in 2011. He is initially relieved by his decision. But survivor's guilt eats away at him. Will they be able to find their way back to each other again? The Rest of the Days Will Drown in the Fjord is an intense novel about breaking down obstacles.

The Red Zone
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2018 · 336 pp

The Red Zone

Gert Nygårdshaug

A Norwegian representative of the Rainforest Foundation is found headless in Tanjung, New Guinea. And before long, the body of the Norwegian investigator sent to solve the murder also turns up—headless as well. Skarphedin Olsen is next in line. He persuades his nephew, Fredric Drum, to join him in Tanjung, a nightmare of humid heat, lawlessness, and poverty.

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Don´t Look Back
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2018 · 272 pp

Don´t Look Back

Karin Fossum

At the foot of the Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children play unafraid in the streets. But tranquillity is irrecoverably shattered when a young woman´s naked body is found by the lake during the search for another missing girl. Inspector Sejer - smart, tough and enigmatic - is called to investigate. Only he can uncover the dark secrets of this quiet community, hidden by deep family ties. This is the second book in the series about Inspector Sejer.Don´t Look Back shows how well Fossum deserves her continental fameSUNDAY TIMESEnds with such a blow to the stomach that most readers will wish they had failed to understand the appalling outcome to this apparently routine investigation. SCOTSMANAn engaging, atmospheric thriller.DAILY MAIL

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SCATTERED DAUGHTERS
Literature and Fiction2018 · 112 pp

SCATTERED DAUGHTERS

Helene Imislund

Helene Imislund's poetry collection Spredte døtre explores what happens when we have to face up to our own death or the death of others. The collection takes us into three stories about crossroads where death is near and gives life new meaning. Three voices are depicted sensitively and precisely through what they experience and observe. This is a crystal clear, beautiful and sad poetry collection from an exciting new writer.

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The Black Falls
Literature and Fiction2018 · 136 pp

The Black Falls

Per Dybvig

With The Black Falls, artist Per Dybvig continues his writing that started with the book The Hunter – a Tale From the Woods (2015), a book that was named Most beautiful book by Grafill the same year. Here, the artist alternates between different techniques of drawing, and place a diverse gallery of figures in an unmistakable Dybvigian universe. A very beautiful and humorous, but also violent book.

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THE SWEDE
Literature and Fiction2018 · 208 pp

THE SWEDE

Guro Hoftun

Jens Persson lives with four other Swedish tradesmen in an abandoned solarium in Oslo. Jens in 41 and saving money in a foundation, but he does not own anything. It is the World Ski Championships 2011 and victory celebrations in Holmenkollen, and while out on the town Jens meets Katrine. For the first time in ages he stands on the threshold of something that might be good. The Swede is a sharp-sighted and edge of the gripping novel about balancing on the ramp and seeing the Norwegian façade from the outside.

DISCORD
Literature and Fiction2018 · 256 pp

DISCORD

How might contemporary feminism change the way we think and live? How are feminist ideas presented in contemporary literature, art and cultural criticism? New essays from Olga Ravn, Kristina Leganger Iversen, Nora Mehsen, Asta Olivia Nordenhof, Namra Saleem, Siri Borgé, Maria Kjos Fonn, Runa Fjellanger, Hedda Høgby Robertsen, Amalie Kasin Lerstang and Carina Beddari, among others.

THE WORLD ENDS HERE
Literature and Fiction2018 · 144 pp

THE WORLD ENDS HERE

Åsne Maria Gundersen

The World Ends Here is a novel about the fear of being vulnerable, not being in control, that life and the world might end at any time. The main character and narrator in the novel is Hanne, a young woman who has recently left her job. Together with her boyfriend, Jan, she travels to a small Spanish island off the coast of Africa. They will live there for six months to find peace and inspiration. He is trying to finish a book he is writing and she is trying to find a way out of her desk job.

WE’’LL JUST DRIVE, AND THEN SEE
Literature and Fiction2018 · 112 pp

WE’’LL JUST DRIVE, AND THEN SEE

Hilde Stålskjær Osen

A young woman moves to a small town on the coast, where the highlight of the day is the passing cruise ship which docks for an hour each night, attracting people to the quayside. Otherwise, life consists of chatting with friends, waiting for her partner and driving along the two routes the road takes: towards the ferry, or towards the bridge. We'll Just Drive, And Then See is a novel which, through sober realism, concerns some of the most common aspects of human life: the longing for something out of reach.

Terms of Life
Literature and Fiction2018 · 160 pp

Terms of Life

Ingeborg Arvola

Ni is a precocious fox. She wants to kill a hen, to know the taste of its blood. She dreams of meeting a male fox beneath a shrub and exploring the longing she feels in her teats. But there are no male foxes. This is the case for many species in the future.A research team is trying to make the soil fertile again. Vemund is different from the rest of the research team. He is silent. Ni follows his scent. But can foxes and humans really meet?