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19 POISONINGS
Literature and Fiction2014 · 72 pp

19 POISONINGS

Nils Christian Moe-Repstad

Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad’s new collection of poetry is about poisonings in the broadest sense – about plagues, infections and pesticides, but also about pollution, political corruption and financial exploitation. The poems make great leaps in time and space: we move from Noah’s ark to Kirkegaten in Kristiansand,from the zealots’ mass suicide on the Masada plateau in 73 ADto sea levels rising, and from climbing plant propagation to a hypothetical future. He looks at poisoned bodies, fragile souls and corrupt societal bodies.Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad’s previous book,Teori om det eneste, was nominated for the Brage Prize, and he has now written a new poetic masterpiece ’19 forgiftninger is a book that demands a lot from the reader, but also gives a lot back in the form of a palpable sense of intensity and sensibility.’DAGSAVISEN‘The sense of nature’s indifference is dizzying in Nils Christian Moe-Repstad’s poetic exploration of the consequences of poisoning.’MORGENBLADET‘I think that 19 forgiftninger is Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad’s best book to date. Last year he was nominated for the Brage Prize. This year he might just win it!’AFTENPOSTEN

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ADA
Literature and Fiction2014 · 160 pp

ADA

Odd Klippenvåg

Winner of the Riksmål Society Literature Prize 2014It's 1955. A young man named Paul comes to a little island community in the far north of Norway to be a substitute teacher for a year. Ada is a cleaner at the school and mother to a girl in the class he teaches. Ada was born with a large and disfiguring birth mark which she tries to hide by always wearing a headscarf.Little by little Paul gets to know Ada and her daughter. He helps them with herding sheep and ploughing on their little farm. Paul is attracted to Ada despite her appearance, and even thoughshe is several years older than him. He is able to see another Ada behind the veil, a strong and remarkable woman, and for this reason she is beautiful to him. He finally manages to break through her shyness. He sees her without her headscarf and they start a relationship that they have to hide from everyone.Several years later, he is retired and on a car trip in the same area with his much younger wife, who he hasn't told anything about his past. Ada is a moving novel set in the magnificent landscape of Northern Norway. A classic love story about a mismatched couple, fate and nature, profundity and superficiality, despair and shame. ‘Depiction of both the characters and environment is great. Klippenvåg uses his own local knowledge and paints a vivid picture of Lofoten. We envision the small, roadless, rural community and its beautiful surroundings where everyone looks after and watches each other. The quality of the novel is primarily due to the language. Klippenvåg uses very polished and eloquent language.’NORDLYS ‘Adacould easily have become a melodramatic and banal novel with a tried-and-tested yet overused theme. But Odd Klippenvåg’s form and language raises this book to something gripping, believable and beautiful. This is because the narrator – using slightly old-fashioned yet mouldable language – never falls victim to speculative descriptions or hyper-sentimental portrayals. And the astonishing and surprising conclusion of the story gives Ada a gravity that makes it well worth reading.’LOFOTPOSTEN

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Remorse
Literature and Fiction2014 · 272 pp

Remorse

Roy Jacobsen

Remorse is a novel about a father who knows that he has not done right by his only daughter. Hans Larsen is 72 years old, just out of jail after doing time. In the same city as him his daughter Marianne is trying to keep life together for herself and her little daughter. Hans knows that the best he can do is to stay away. But it is not easy, as he really wants to see his daughter and granddaughter. So he starts spying on them, through a mediator. Marianne wants nothing to do with her father. But she has some remorse of her own, so she asks her boyfriend to spy on Hans. I the middle of all this Hans falls in love with a woman his own age. He is almost starting to see life in a bright way, the little he has left of it. The father and daughter are driven closer, unwillingly and indirectly. The question is if there can be a form of reconciliation between them. Or maybe it in the end takes a miracle. ´Elegant, raw and human. Humour of a kind that make you chuckle in the darkness. A dark novel to bright up the fall.´HAUGESUNDS AVIS ´The artful filigree work, connected to two complicated minds marked by the shadows of times passed and a latent wish for reconciliation, is fascinating, even occasionally masterly done.´STAVANGER AFTENBLAD ´Jacobsen is an excessive writer managing to bring out the wounded human destinies from aparantly grey everyday life in a way is is hard to stay untouched by.´DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ´Great literature´KLASSEKAMPEN

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Beatles
Literature and Fiction2014 · 736 pp

Beatles

Lars Saabye Christensen

This is the story of four Beatles-crazed Oslo-boys born in the year of 1951. We follow them as seventh graders, standing on the verge of taking the leap into adulthood – “We took the future in advance, and it looked damned good”. The story ends in the fall of 1972, as the swells of the youth protests of Europe are flooding them and their protected bourgeois environment, no feet left dry. Beatles was first published in 1984, and is among the greatest sales successes in modern Norwegian Publishing. The novel was Lars Saabye Christensens great breakthrough as a writer, and it is read by generation after generation. Beatles is the first book in a trilogy, followed by Lead (1990) and The Funeral (2008). Readers of Dagbladet named the book Best Norwegian Novel of the last 25 years in 2006."An exquisitely told story. It can be read right through, tasting of an entire summer and half a childhood."PUBLICO, Portugal"A celebration of love and friendship, and with acceptance for the great loneliness of the soul. Beatles is literary Blues. Read it. Hum, sigh, laugh. Enjoy!"AKTUELT, Denmark"His details are superb. In short scenes or hastily passing lines, he captures the atmosphere exactly."GÖTEBORGSPOSTEN, Sweden "Christensen really can play with styles, rapidly changing voices – he glides from melancholia to darkness and grotesque, then puts us right in the middle of a chaotic stream of consciousness. He can disarm raw seriousness with subtle humor."GAZETA WYBORCZA, Poland "Lars Saabye Christensen, the author of the cult Halvbroren, proved already with his debut Beatles that he is a master of prose."HARPERS BAZAAR POLSKA, Poland

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The Drowned Boy
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2014 · 224 pp

The Drowned Boy

Karin Fossum

"He´d just learned to walk" she said. "He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone." A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene, as there is something troubling about the mother´s story. As even her own family turns against her, Sejer is determined to get the truth. This is the eleventh book about Inspector Sejer. Fossum´s Inspector Sejer novels are invariably morally and psychologically complex affairs, but The Drowned Boy might well be her crowning achievement to date. IRISH TIMES Karin Fossums minimalist police procedurals have a stealthy way of mutating into richer, if also darker, psychological studies of criminals and their victims.NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A gripping story, balanced, believable and compassionate.GUARDIAN

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Elsi Lund
Literature and Fiction2014 · 320 pp

Elsi Lund

Bjørg Vik

In the third book in the series about Elsi Lund, she has reached womanhood. We follow Elsi through the mid-1950s: from graduation and domestic science college to engagement, break-up, and mental collapse, before she finds the key to her own life and her own voice at the Journalism Academy. With warmth, precision, and sensuality, Vik portrays the transition from youth to adulthood in a time marked by conventions and narrow frameworks for how women were expected to live their lives. The Elsi Lund trilogy today stands as a major work of Norwegian post-war literature and demonstrates why Bjørg Vik is considered one of our most central authors.

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A Norwegian House
Literature and Fiction2014 · 192 pp

A Norwegian House

Vigdis Hjorth

A Norwegian log cabin plays one of the main roles in Vigdis Hjorth's new novel. What does it mean to own a house or land, to look after it and rent it out? Alma is a divorced, middle-aged textile artist who makes standards for marching bands and trade unions for a living, and who, for that reason, rents an apartment to a Polish family. One day, Alma is given an assignment requiring empathy and creativity: to make a carpet which will be displayed as part of an exhibition for the anniversary of the constitution and which should focus on the 100th anniversary of women being given the right to vote. Alma is flattered and accepts, but soon wonders if she's in over her head. Where should she begin? When, at the same time, she enters into a conflict with her Polish tenants, Alma's perception of herself as a good Norwegian feminist is challenged and she finds that her very existence is on shaky ground. A house in Norway is a novel about the joy of creating and gaining recognition and the despair in realising that this recognition is difficult to translate to reality. So is it really worth it? ‘... a great novel that is plausible and realistic, but which has a metaphoric potential that the author cleverly never points out.’ DAG OG TID ‘Vigdis Hjorth has never been afraid of the banal or clichéd. She also has an uncanny ability to write through the hackneyed and stereotypical to something more painfully existential. This is one of the reasons that I am becoming more and more appreciative of her authorship. ... An important book about the dilemmas facing us all, about the relationship between what is familiar and strange and about Norwegian self-awareness.’ AFTENPOSTEN ‘Just as profound, existential and original as always. ... As always when I read Hjorth, it strikes me how deeply she thinks. And how elegant and original she is in her formulation of these thoughts.’ DAGBLADET ‘I don’t know how she does it, but I must say I’m impressed. Vigdis Hjorth always has her finger on the pulse of Norwegian society. ... There is a fire in everything she writes – a fire that Alma in this novel thinks must smoulder in young souls – and I think that Vigdis Hjorth gets older and wiser and younger and more passionate with every book she writes.’ NRK.no ‘A great book about the distance between ideals and everyday challenges.’ TRØNDER-AVISA ‘Hjorth unmasks us again, this time in a novel about inequality in the world’s richest country. Pressing questions and a prism of today’s Norway.’ KLASSEKAMPEN

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Frost
Literature and Fiction2014 · 496 pp

Frost

Roy Jacobsen

In this novel Roy Jacobsen takes us back to one of the most dramatic periods in Scandinavian history. FROST is the adventurous tale about the Icelandic boy Gest, born in the year of 993, who at the age of just thirteen years old becomes an outlaw when he avenges the murder of his father by killing one of the most powerful chiefs of Iceland. With his companion, the wildling Teitr, he flees Iceland and makes it to Norway. There he walks on foot from Trondheim to Hålogaland and further south. He is cold, he is going nowhere, and he will kill again. ´Frost is a great novel and a riveting adventure. At the same time.´AFTENPOSTEN ´Roy Jacobsen is a storyteller touched by God. Frost is a well filled, well written and fascinating saga novel.´DAGBLADET ´Frost is an impressive parade of a novel (...) As a whole: A riveting triathlon of a novel. Here we meet a storyteller who knows what he is doing. He has extensive knowledge about Nordic literature and let himself be inspired by the sagas without becoming a predictable imitator.´STAVANGER AFTENBLAD ´Frost is a through and through modern novel exactly because of its historic slant, drawing a precise curve through todays conflict-areas, both outwards and as an inner journey.´BERGENS TIDENDE

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Hellfire
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2014 · 256 pp

Hellfire

Karin Fossum

A rusty old caravan sits in a forest grove. The door is open and a four or five year old child lies inside. The child's body has been chopped into pieces and is nearly drained of blood. An adult woman, presumably the child's mother, lies on a sofa, also stabbed to death.This is brutal even for Konrad Sejer. The deceased are Connie, who works as home help for the elderly, and Simon, her son. There are many characters in this book, but the central figures are Connie and Simon as well as Mamma Mass and her 21-yearold son Eddie. Both are single mothers not in contact with the fathers of their children. As Connie works as home help, we also encounter many other people and their destinies in the homes she visits. The author switches deftly between chapters set in 2004 and chapters set in 2005, or rather, before and after the murders. This increases the tension, and the reader is able to participate in solving the mystery of who the killer is. There are many clues leading in different directions. Helvetesilden deals with topics such as poverty in a wealthy Norway, the situation of the elderly and the absence of a father. But above all it makes for very exciting reading. ‘Helvetesilden is one of Karin Fossum’s best crime stories. … In her writing, Fossum expertly captures the nuances of everyday life and the way in which living people struggle to make sense of life. She does it with a subdued tone and an unwavering dedication to her characters. … In Helvetesilden, the story approaches a point which is heartbreaking rather than thrilling. This novel shows that Karin Fossum is in a class of her own as a crime writer.’DAGSAVISEN ‘Here she delivers what must be one of her most penetrating and moving novels. An author at the height of her creative ability. … The composition is almost a stroke of genius in itself, as for a long time we are at a complete loss as to how Fossum intends to fuse the parallel storylines. … The way she does it demonstrates both her mastery of her trade and her formidable ability to portray tormented minds without diminishing them through inconsequential platitudes about insanity and other dissociative diagnoses.’AFTENPOSTEN ‘The opening scene showcases Fossum at her best – the dank camper van, the heat and the brutal murders. The detailed, subdued tone; the grotesque in the middle of the everyday.’DAGBLADET ‘A really high-grade crime novel should delve deep into human motivation, both that of the main characters and the supporting characters, so that the hero and antagonist are not merely presented in black and white. And not least, the language should be functional, precise and efficient. There are not many people who write like this within the extensive crime genre. Karin Fossum is one of few who can. She writes high-quality crime of the best, international standard. She has now focused her attention on a novel which, in my opinion, has to be one of her very best. It is called Helvetesilden. So disturbing, riveting and painful that you can’t help but be drawn in.’TØNSBERG BLAD ‘And just like Ibsen, Fossum’s use of language is beautiful - precise, expertly calling to mind images without ever employing a single superfluous word… it is a sheer joy to reunite with old companions Sejer and Skarre ... Their best attributes are put to the test, and yet again they pass with flying colours. The same can be said for Karin Fossum.’DRAMMENS TIDENDE ‘Intricate and surprising.’VARDEN‘Karin Fossum is the most literary of the Norwegian crime writers ... The novel is skilfully composed, and several of the characters from Helvetesilden will remain with the reader long after the final page has been turned.’ADRESSEAVISEN‘Karin Fossum has mastered the art of describing the exhausting everyday lives of individuals. We come to understand how a monstrous double-murder can occur, and Fossum writes with a wonderful and affectionate eye for detail and the bonds that connect people.’OPPLAND ARBEIDERBLAD‘It is a joy to observe the weaving together of the three parallel stories contained within the novel - the author is in her element in this respect. The way in which she describes the crime and that which is hidden in the shadow of madness reveals an empathetic logic from which many members of society can learn a great deal. Karin Fossum is truly a writer unlike all others.’TRØNDER-AVISA‘The tight focus on the protagonists and the tempting darkness lurking beneath the surface makes this no typical tale of murder and police investigation. Instead, this is a story of human destiny, buried history and painful feelings that grip the reader and refuse to let go until long after the book has ended.’TELEMARKSAVISA‘Helvetesilden is a strong sequel to Fossum’s earlier psychological novels - glittering prose situated within a framework that both fascinates and inspires the reader.’GJENGANGEREN‘Yet again, Karin Fossum delivers an impressive piece of work - one would expect no less...’LO-MEDIA

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The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles
Literature and Fiction2014 · 176 pp

The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles

Roy Jacobsen

"... everyone has the right to be complete in their own life, even the lame and the blind, or, with a little help, those with a crater in their face. Where would we be without a little help?"When the Finns burn down and flee from the small town of Suomussalmi before the Russians come in November 1939, one man stays behind. The hewer, Timmo Vatanen Timmo, has lived in Suomussalmi all his life and cannot live anywhere else. And one man has to defend the ruins and do the right thing, even though it seems like an impossible task and will do nothing to help him to make friends. The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles is a gripping existential novel about seven men who have to carry the load together, about wood and warmth and a pair of ladies shoes and about the words, "thank you." Shortlisted for the IMPAC award in 2009. 'Once again Roy Jacobsen has delivered a beautiful piece of writing.'AFTENPOSTEN 'Roy Jacobsen is a fantastic story teller. He has a simple and unpretentious style; sensitive without being sentimental, masculine without showing off ... Not to mention his ability to create great psychological portraits.'DAGBLADET 'Roy Jacobsen’s new novel is economically cut, enigmatic and ambiguous. And utterly well written.'VG 'Roy Jacobsen has written a thin novel with regard to number of pages. As for the content, this is one of the most pregnant novels I remember having read.'KLASSEKAMPEN 'Jacobsen has an almost magical ability to draw up a believable and original sketch of a character within a couple of lines, so that one remembers this character, and never has any doubts about it. All seems real and authentic.'DAG OG TID 'At the end of The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles the main character thinks to himself that one day he will find someone who can tell his story. He could hardly hope for a better story teller than Roy Jacobsen.'VÅRT LAND 'Being one of our best prose writers, his books are a delight to read. The same goes for his mini novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles.'TØNSBERGS BLAD '... a powerful and well-written account of an unfamiliar episode in the Second World War.'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, UK 'The electric power in Jacobsen’s rugged narrative style is generated by what happens beneath the surface, the way feelings and thoughts diverge and converge, and words and actions come into being. Jacobsen’s motive force comes from the same place: all of a sudden something has happened, something unclear, almost mysterious, yet full of meaning, not to say fateful, and the perspective has slightly shifted. It is a suggestive effect which always makes me both confused and uneasy, and that is precisely how great literature should creep up on you. Read the book. It’s an order. Now I have to go out, chop wood, get warm and feel like a hero.'SVENSKA DAGBLADET, Sweden 'The new novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles ... is a thought-provoking saga about wood, war and male friendship. … And amid all the freezing temperatures, which cause tears to go black and the human heart to petrify, there is a rare narrative tale of warmth, a thought-provoking saga about wood and war and male friendship, about how human compassion can exist through the fury of battle and express itself in everyday actions and in an economy of words. It is about the greatness of the individual – and the smallness. … In his restrained, fastidious style, without the slightest hint of sentimentality, Jacobsen draws a portrait of the intelligent (on the sly) oddball who is as moving as he is enigmatic.'SYDSVENSKAN, Sweden 'The universality of Jacobsen’s novel is self-evident as we all at some time will see our greatness flicker and die in the winds of time. Jacobsen has simply made the image of this drama so much clearer; allowed it to stand out in black against the white forests.'DAGENS NYHETER, Sweden 'This beautiful little novel is a poetic take on an intriguing bit of history.'SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Australia

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The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen
Literature and Fiction2014 · 288 pp

The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen

Bjørg Vik

In the years after the war, Elsi Lund is a young girl facing confirmation, friendships, infatuations, and the first tentative steps toward adulthood. She moves between new environments and crossroads — from the cramped tenement building on St. Hanshaugen to secondary school and gymnasium and experiences both the freedom and the limitations that come with them. Through Elsi, post-war Oslo is reflected: a city in transition, marked by class divisions, dreams, and the emergence of a new era. With her distinctive eye for detail, and with warmth, humour, and precision, Bjørg Vik portrays how small events can have big ripple effects in a young person’s life. The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen is both a historical portrait and a gripping coming-of-age novel — a story about longings, coincidences, and the struggle to find one’s own way. The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen is the standalone continuation of Small Keys, Big Rooms, and the second volume in Bjørg Vik’s unforgettable trilogy about Elsi Lund.

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Restraint
Literature and Fiction2014 · 176 pp

Restraint

Stig Sæterbakken

Andreas Feldt meets his oldest daughter, Marit, to take care of a financial matter. It has been years since they last saw each other. Seeing her again brings him out of balance, and in a confused moment he tells the daughter that he is divorcing her mother. This impulsive lie does not only destroy the conversation with the daughter, but also put doubt in his own mind about his own existence, shaped by routine and the people around him. A glaring suspicion awakens. It is like he has a blind spot in his memory. Is there something he has forgotten, something he does not want to, or is not capable of remembering? Restraint (Selvbeherskelse) can be read as a burlesque comedy and a dark tragedy. "Stig Sæterbakkens Restraint is a intensely exploring novel. That people loose self control happens all the time. And you are supposed to have certain feelings. But what if restraint is the only think keeping you from loosing your mind? (...) With his fourth novel Sæterbakken envisions his abilities to describe some of the least graspable aspects of human existence. Stig Sæterbakken himself appears as an insightful, independent and artistically reflected novel writer, with a book that you can only congratulate him on writing."DAGBLADET

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