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Red danger
Literature and Fiction2023 · 192 pp

Red danger

Helene V. Nortvedt

Evy is 27 years old, an age where many have managed to establish themselves and sorted out their lives, but she’s only managed to isolate herself from others. Something pulls her back to her teenage years when her mother’s relationship with Rune broke down. Evy hasn’t seen Rune in 15 years. Rune with the golden, wavy hair, brown leather jacket and red shoes with white laces. At least that’s what he looks like in her memories. Is she romanticising him? Rune has another family now, and Evy knows where he lives. Several times she goes to his house and sees the lights on through the windows. One day she gets in touch with Rune. It doesn’t turn out the way she imagined. But what did she imagine? The relationship between children and parents in a family of divorce is explored in many novels, but what about the step-parents? Those who are present through the most formative years of growing up, acting as a parent? What happens when they disappear out of the children’s life? Red Danger is a literarily strong debut novel about the connections and boundaries that can exist between humans.

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From Samuel Pedersen's Travel Journal
Literature and Fiction2023 · 128 pp

From Samuel Pedersen's Travel Journal

Knut Ødegård

Knut Ødegard is a maximalist poet, with a lush imagination and equally lush language. This is also true for this year’s long poem: From Samuel Pedersen’s Travel Journal. Samuel Pedersen goes on a road trip with Inga in a home-made mobile home, bought on Gumtree for very little money. A purchase that isn’t necessarily a great deal. During the road trip Samuel writes a journal, where both events on the trip as well as his thoughts and imaginations take place. Inga is the same woman who comes along on their trip in 2019, but Samuel is just as interested in Olga, who died in a parachute accident in 2017. The journey takes them around North-Western Norway through rain and thunder, while the priest and the pope, relatives and roots, birds and mopeds show up in their own unique ways.

Songs from Trees
Literature and Fiction2023 · 128 pp

Songs from Trees

Ellen Mari Thelle

Songs from Trees opens with a wake. Elise's mother is dead. But what the family and friends speak of the most during this time of mourning, is Elise. They tell stories of the extraordinary and indispensable person she was. As needy and bothersome as she was wild and beautiful. This is a novel about how death follows death, and creates life. A novel about how much, or how little, another person can mean for their surroudings, and how, after passing, that person disappears into them.

Last man on his back
Literature and Fiction2023 · 320 pp

Last man on his back

Arild Stavrum

Albert is 20 years old and works at the dock, but when he’s not working, he is practicing wrestling. All the time. He lives in a small, worn house with his mum and two younger brothers. He’s never known his father. The year is 1936. In Europe something is brewing. The dock is bustling. Most people are working with the cuttlefish, some aren’t as lucky and have to make a living making moonshine alcohol. Albert only has one competitor in his own town: Johnny Wiik, a rich boy who’s also his boss at the dock. When they were children, they used to play together, now they fight together. Competing for a spot in the Olympic squad. And it’s not just any old Olympic Games we’re talking about, it’s the Olympic Summer Games in Berlin, where Hitler himself will be in the stands. Arild Stavrum writes about sport and exercise, about two men on the mat, in such a way that we can smell the action, notice the muscles tensing, the bodies being thrown around, the sweat that flows, and the test of strength that costs everything. Last Man on His Back is a different and entertaining historical novel which amongst other things poses the eternal question: Is it right for a young man to give everything he has got to what he loves, to want to become the best in the world, without any monetary profit in sight, when he has a family at home relying on him?

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave
Literature and Fiction2023 · 408 pp

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave

Olav Løkken Reisop

Lars Mytting meets Karl Ove Knausgård in this timely novel about climate activismWhat happens if someone attacks your best friend or someone else you love? What wouldn’t you do to defend that person? And what if your best friend is the nature? What do you think is acceptable to do in an attempt to stop the escalating violence against nature? Sit-in protests? Signature collections? Mass murder? Can one go too far? Should the defenders be stopped or protected? In Olav Løkken Reisop’s We will be known forever by the tracks we leave, someone is about to put their foot down on behalf of nature. But who? At the same time, a mysterious fog is spreading throughout the forest. The birds are getting sick and animals and humans are increasingly acting strange. What is really happening to the world?The novel alternates between the present and the past, between several perspectives and portrays many different people in the village. Gradually, hidden connections between them are revealed, and their lives soon seem as intertwined as mushroom threads beneath the ground.ReviewsThe Last of Us «Kerstin Ekman meets Twin Peaks in Olav Løkken Reisops complex eco-thriller. (...) The novel's plot is permeated by the natural landscape of Hurdal, often masterfully described by Reisop. (...) We will be known forever by the tracks we leave is deliciously un-Norwegian (while also very Norwegian), ambitious work with a lot to sink your teeth into, and its atmosphere and rich universe grow when I, after reading, flick through it again.»Klassekampen Bokmagasinet«Olav Løkken Reisop must be said to hit the modern zeistgeist squarely in the face with the crime-like novel of ideas We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. (...) Reisop is at his best when his gaze is directed to the grandure of the small things. He describes the slowness of nature with almost the same glow as someone in love.»Vinduet

Murmur
Literature and Fiction2023 · 208 pp

Murmur

Cornelius C. Steinkjer

Lyder Alving buys a flat to live in with Rebecca. But shortly after Lyder realises he isn’t able to live with Rebecca and he impulsively moves out. At a funeral a few months later, he meets the more stable Hedvig, and a quiet love triangle unfolds. Lyder is stuck between Rebecca’s turbulent lifestyle, and the monotone, continuous existence of Hedvig. Murmur depicts how the day to day can look like with bipolar disorder. Instead of focusing on the extremities, the author puts the focus on the thoughts that arrive alongside the mood swings, and the constant doubt regarding which life you’re supposed to be living: A life full of mood swings, or the stable life that society appears to demand.

The Mirror’s Memory
Literature and Fiction2023 · 104 pp

The Mirror’s Memory

Sigurd Helseth

The Mirror’s Memory is the manuscript author Sigurd Helseth handed in right before he passed away in 2021. This book also contains a collection of the poetry he left behind. The poems cover a range of topics, from the gaze of children and act of playing to the clear thoughts and calmness of the elderly. The book takes us on a journey through seasons and the rhythms of nature, considers birds in the sky and makes us feel the soil between our hands. All together the poems show off a poet with a strong mastery of language, form and imagery.

Silence is Like the Chop of an Axe
Literature and Fiction2023 · 192 pp

Silence is Like the Chop of an Axe

Tom Ingar Eliassen

On a farm, by a river, surrounded by large, quiet mountains Else and the narrator of the novel, Egil, live. They’ve had a long life together, but now Else has lost her ability to speak and Egil seeks solace in nature, in the river, the forest and the birds. On the other side Eva is waiting, she comes from the town, has a scar across her face and dreams about finding a pond with a view. In the sky an eagle floats by, the waterfall plays in the river, the trout awakens, while the wolverines wander restlessly around in the mountains. In this quiet novel, Egil looks back at a life that is gone. It's about kissing someone who has stopped returning the kiss, about axe chops and love, about longing and grief, about losing something, and discovering something new. The language in the novel is simple and precise, but full of imagery. Through short scenes and memories, we see the contours of what connects us and what drives us apart, like the clouds drift across the mountains, like the river which flows and flows, sometimes silently in the dark.

Sew Us into the Tablecloth
Literature and Fiction2023 · 64 pp

Sew Us into the Tablecloth

Eike Aalen Øi

Eike Aalen Øi makes his debut as a poet with the poetry collection Sew Us into the Tablecloth. The poems explore being in a privileged position while also remaining vulnerable. It’s about being part of the climate changes, but at the same time not really addressing it. The book is also an exploration of how identity is created through language and how language is shaped by identity, family, and upbringing.

The Dice Killer
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2023 · 400 pp

The Dice Killer

Hans Olav Lahlum

The date is 31st October, and the year is 1973. In his private detective office in Oslo Kolbjørn “K2” Kristiansen is visited by a shook-up lecturer. The lecturer thinks it’s unbelievable that an old friend in Gjøvik would die in a fall accident and underlines it by pointing out his friend was scared of heights. Kristiansen’s investigation in Gjøvik points to the death being an accident or suicide. He writes off the discovery of a dice on the crime scene as a coincidence, but he does wonder why the widow of the deceased doesn’t know about his fear of heights or his lecturer friend. Before K2 has time to ask his client about this, the lecturer passes away after being hit by a car. It turns out those left behind in his family also don’t know anything about his so-called friend in Gjøvik. K2’s confusion turns into a suspicion that a double murder has occurred, once he at the crime scene in Oslo finds another dice. K2 has to seek help from his secret advisor Patricia to clear up the mystery of how the two victims are connected. It will be a long, difficult task to stop this faceless and nameless dice killer… The Dice Killer is the 11th novel in historian Hans Olav Lahlum’s classic crime novel series set in 1960s and 1970s Norway.

To Fashion
Literature and Fiction2023 · 240 pp

To Fashion

Morten Langeland

To Fashion is a poem that travels far by railway through Europe. With fashion capitals like Antwerpen, Berlin, Paris and Milan in mind, the lovesick poet writes an ode to his lover and a teaching poem to their unborn daughter, Lille Trille. Through them, and through constant movement, the poems sees himself, his past and his present, with a newly born perspective.

Howling with Wolves
Literature and Fiction2023 · 160 pp

Howling with Wolves

Ida Gilbert

Aslaug has a more or less meaningful job as a communications manager in the idealistic organisation Future with Vision. Still, her job fills her with a constantly increasing irritation and lack of desire and irritation – to the extent that the highlight of her week is the cake served after lunch on Wednesdays. Aslaug's displeasure becomes acute when the hundred percent politically correct Karen-Britt is hired and assigned an office space next to Aslaug in the open office landscape. A mental bomb is about to go off – in the very near future. Howling with Wolves is a novel which makes fun of both city and village, which surely is allowed. «The text takes hold from the first page, and effortlessly holds the reader's interest through three quite different parts. (...) I'm already looking forward to the next book from this author.»ADRESSEAVISEN, five/six stars«In Howling with Wolves, Ida Gilbert's delightful debut novel, these opposites [the city v. the country village, the elite v. normal people] are dressed in particularly caricatured clothes (...) it is very witty (...) Gilbert writes with humor and a talent for caricature.»KLASSEKAMPEN