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Alexandra
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 320 pp

Alexandra

Merete Lien

Alexandra is the third and final book in Follow the wind – the captivating feelgood trilogy from Rome. Rome, June 2014: During a fashion show where Alexandra is showing her own work, something happens that changes everything. An older man reaches out to her – and what he has to say shakes her to the core. If what he claims is true, Alexandra must see her entire life in a new light. And, if she chooses to trust him, he can offer her priceless help in the final settlement with her husband, Wilhelm.

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The Orange Trees Garden
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 336 pp

The Orange Trees Garden

Merete Lien

The Orange Trees Garden is the first book in a captivating feelgood trilogy set in Rome. Spring 2015: Agnes travels from Norway to Rome to find her friend Alexandra, who's been reported missing by her suddenly ill husband. What's happened to Alexandra—has something befallen her, or has she gone into hiding? In Rome, Agnes accidentally runs into an old flame, and her feelings for him rushes back. But how accidental is it, really, that he is in Rome now? The further into the mystery Agnes digs, the more confused she becomes. Who is Alexandra? Is her husband really ill? Soon, Agnes finds herself entangled into a cat-and-mouse game revolving around an art scam. She is given lies disguised as the truth, until she no longer can tell friend from fiend. Summer 1953: In one of the nicer areas of Rome, young, upper-class Francesca meets a man in a red sports car. The man is the famous American photographer Chris Henley, who's specialised in La Dolce Vita. Francesca falls heads over heels, but her parents are not thrilled by the match, convinced that Chris Henley is a gold digger. The series Follow the Wind is full of heart, excitement, passion and love. It crosses multiple timelines, where hidden motives and seedy affairs create secrets that won't stay secret forever.

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Wisteria
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 320 pp

Wisteria

Merete Lien

Wisteria is the second book in Follow the wind -- the captivating feelgood trilogy from Rome. Because of the deal with Alexandra, Agnes can stay in Alexandra's apartment by the Orange Trees Garden for free. Springtime is perfect for wandering the many streets of Rome — and for spending time in front of the easel. Agnes gets to know Gabriele, a handsome and kind Roman. He is quick to offer his help and gives her lots of attention, but Agnes is hesitant to let him all the way into her heart. She hasn't forgotten Stefan, and she doesn't know Gabriele's motives. But another man frequently seeks Agnes out, and his motives she both knows and fears ...

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Burden of Guilt
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2024 · 448 pp

Burden of Guilt

Hilde S. Palladino

It is a scorching hot summer. The heatwave has lasted for weeks. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is tasked by the police with looking for a middle-aged woman who has disappeared. It turns out that the missing woman had a daughter who disappeared without a trace, eighteen years ago. Bjørk quickly discovers similarities to the double-homicide case in which she made a fatal error three years ago. Where she caused the wrong person to be charged with the brutal murder of two teenage girls. He ended up taking his own life in his cell. Together with her former partner at the National Criminal Investigation Service, Absalon Lund, Bjørk starts investigating the case. The girl who disappeared eighteen years ago may have been the actual perpetrator’s first victim. Bjørk and Absalon are likely hunting a killer who may have been active for two decades. A perpetrator who has become Bjørk’s nemesis. As the search for the missing woman intensifies, yet another young girl disappears from the neighbourhood. Bjørk is convinced that the serial killer is active again. Burden of Guilt is an ambitious and well-written psychological crime novel that serves as a follow-up to H.S. Palladino’s explosive debut. The first book in the series, Hidden Under Snow, was sold to Germany, Sweden and Denmark on publication. «Vibrating and mystified crime where the author keeps the reader in doubt until the last sentence»RANDEBERG 24, six/six stars

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The Absence
Literature and Fiction2024 · 144 pp

The Absence

Susanne Mørk

Every day we live is as fateful as it is destined. Anything can happen. In The Absence people meet people, often in an unusual way. People with unclear desires. People who don't really understand themselves. Who follow after one another. People who disappear. People who never leave. People left behind, without closure. It's as if there is a curse upon us as we read. Often, the author folds the lives of their characters together, like freshly laundered clothes, and the perception of time changes, as does truth, meaning, and all those things. They are understood as folded, rather than chronological. The stories in The Absence confirm that we live tragic lives, which we don't really have control over - but it doesn't make us condemned creatures.

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Last Christmas
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 320 pp

Last Christmas

Siri Østli

Finally a new Christmas book from the Norwegian queen of feelgood! Christmas is drawing near, but the idyll and calm Kirsti longs for during the holiday season seems completely out of reach this year. This autumn the complications in Kirsti’s life is piling higher than gifts under the tree. Her teenage daughter Iben is having mood swings, Kirsti's mother and sister has decided to spend Christmas on the Canary Islands without them, and her new boyfriend Tobias is spending all his time as a climate activist. Then, Kirsti gets a phone from her doctor. Breast cancer. Suddenly, she must face the possibility of Iben having to grow up without her. Which means she also has to face the fact that Iben has a father, who doesn't know about his daughter. As Kirsti grapples with everything, her neighbourhood rallies around her while Tobias practically evaporates from her life, blaming his absence on a phobia of diseases. Is this Kirsti’s last Christmas? Or can a Christmas miracle happen?

Can a Christmas miracle heal a fractured life?
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Mr. Knapp’s Unfinished Business
Literature and Fiction2024 · 144 pp

Mr. Knapp’s Unfinished Business

Lars Saabye Christensen

Mr. Knapp had just discovered that his landline was dead. He hadn’t even been there when it happened. This was a telling example. When had he ever been present? Wasn’t he always blindsided, as they say? This was the end of an era, that much was certain. He felt depressed and significant. Mr. Knapp is an old man. A lot of people prefer to use the phrase ‘getting up there’ when talking about old age: Mr. Knapp was getting up there. But old age was never something to which Mr. Knapp had tried to achieve. Quite the opposite. Who rushes toward something like that? He’s still dealing with his childhood. And his youth. And his family. And with people. And with love. Oh, to be in love! In Paris, the summer of 1959, visiting museums and galleries, or just walking along the streets, with his future wife, reading French poetry, especially Verlaine, “how did that poem go again, the one about rain in Paris and the heart?” Why can’t he remember? The rain is still falling. «Mr. Knapp's Unfinished Business is about becoming so old that one will soon die. [...] it's a mix of quiet realism, a twinkle in the eye and absurd elements. [...] It is strongest when the humour is contrasted against the very present pain.»ADRESSEAVISEN Charming portrait of old age«Lars Saabye Christensen has written a charming novel about loneliness, old age and imminent death. [...] full of wit, paradoxes, puns and stinging remarks about life in its mundanity and old people in particular. During the novel, you'll want to laugh, but end up crying. [..] The cheerful, charming linguistic surface often hides dark secrets. [...] Mr. Knapp's Unfinished Business is Lars Saabye Christensen at his most engaging.»DAGSAVISEN

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In the House of Pantaloon
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 288 pp

In the House of Pantaloon

Hilde Rød-Larsen

In The House of Pantaloon is a novel about the destructive power of shame and how the silence that follows in its wake can ripple through generations. The novel is set in Oslo, over the course of a few months. We follow Eva and Cornelia in alternate chapters, as Eva is dealing with widowhood, and Cornelia with a broken relationship and single parenthood. Through chance, Eva and Cornelia’s paths keep crossing. A tender and unexpected affinity develops between the two women, who at first seem to have little in common, and who find themselves in vastly different circumstances. The story has a plot-driven narrative, with an existential nerve, slight satirical elements, and much warmth. By the end, the reader will realize how these two women‘s lives are intertwined through secrets of the past and “the sins of the fathers”, with Henrik Ibsen‘s Ghosts as a hinted-at backdrop. Riveting about power«The community, the warmth and the compassion make Hilde Rød-Larsen’s novel a terrific example of a feminine writing in a traditionally male-dominated world.»KLASSEKAMPEN«A character-driven drama which engages and entertains. […] Rød-Larsen has a good grip on the text with dialogue that flows well.»ADRESSEAVISA, five/six stars «It requires courage to do what Hilde Rød-Larsen does in her new novel, In The House of Pantaloon, where she delves deep into the old patriarchy's oppression of women and the logic of abuse in a literary form, which shamelessly mimics the narrative ridiculousness, which we know from Hallmark's feelgood Christmas films. Can it actually work? Yes, it can.»WEEKENDAVISEN (Denmark) «Although a larger drama lurks underneath, the novel spends a while focusing on portraying its two protagonists, making them flesh and blood people and placing them in their time. It works exceedingly well. Hilde Rød-Larsen's prose flows beautifully and unpretentiously, she portrays her characters sincerely and honestly as they move through the evasive everyday life ... In a seamless and touching manner, she switched between her two main characters, and slowly but surely she lets her story pick up the pace in the second half, all the way to the quite brilliant ending, which of course will not be revealed here. Only that the book's plot and thinking are expressed in a form that is both appropriate and unexpected.»INFORMATION (Denmark) «A grand story told in few pages!»SØNDAG (Denmark)

A feelgood story with literary elements
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The Lily in the Field
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 320 pp

The Lily in the Field

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

Summer 1867. Sorrow and joy go hand in hand at Sommersholm this season. The maid’s room in the manor has suddenly become Alise's new home. She mourns her father, and longs for any sign of life from Birk. Why isn't he writing? On top of this heartbreak and her pregnancy, she must work as Aurelia’s chambermaid, and Aurelia seems determined to complicate Alise’s life even further. At Hasselskovgaard, the upcoming costume ball is the talk of the town. Only Rose's thoughts are elsewhere. She fears that Hugo will discover and expose Torkel. Hugo has shown there is no limit to how far he will go. Can he be stopped? The tension between Margrete and Axel is still palpable. In the fruit garden he attempts to kiss her, but Margerete believes he is engaged to someone else and accuses him of taking advantage. He leaves her there, promising to leave her alone from now on.

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Norwegian love
Literature and Fiction2024 · 128 pp

Norwegian love

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

Was Brynjulf a child sold across borders? Can he still be glad he was bought by someone in Norway? All he wants is to be part of the country where he grew up, to acknowledge the painful, but also see what's beautiful. At the time when White, Norwegian man came out, a story broke that there had been problematic aspects to the adoption industry. This shook the self-image and identity of many adopted people, including Brynjulf Jung Tjønn. Even though you are born in another country and have dark skin colour, you still just want to belong. To be part of the Norwegian. Who has Brynjulf been? Who will he be or become? What does it mean to be Norwegian? "(...) poems that vibrate with quiet, understated tension.”Marius AspVG, Five/six stars “He is often satirical and has an undeniable talent for pinpoint phrasing.”Espen GrønlieDagbladet, Five/six stars “… a poetic commentary on the ongoing news landscape.”Gro Jørstad NilsenBergens Tidende, Five/six stars “Brynjulf Jung Tjønn finds a finely tuned balance between the despair of identity and reconciliation.”Ingunn ØklandAftenposten “Brynjulf Jung Tjønn’s new poetry collection plays on ‘Norwegian’ as a hallmark of identity, values, and tradition, while also capturing the experience of alienation, racism, and the loss of self.”Sigrid Elise StrømmenVårt Land

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The Trophy Room
Literature and Fiction2024 · 224 pp

The Trophy Room

Lars Saabye Christensen

Ion Pauker is the son of a master glassmaker in a small village. His journey through life coincides with the emergence of the new regime. Like his peers, Ion Pauker is drawn to what is new. He proves to be adaptable and ends up in the People's Palace, responsible for the Omagiu room - the place where all official medals and orders are kept. There are many trophies to look after, and strict guidelines for which medals to display at different occasions. But there will come a time when the medals and their supervisor cease to serve a purpose. The Trophy Room takes place in a bizarre regime of the past. The novel also serves as a mirror being held up to our world of today, with its authoritarian tendencies and desire for strong leaders. Under such a regime, what happens to people’s humanity? What happens to citizens when their minds are controlled, and "truth" is nothing but a means to keep that control? Where does one draw the line between survival and treason? And under these contidions, it even possible to be a good person? «The Trophy Room is both an eerie portrait of the autoritarian's mentality, and a refreshing renewal of a long and important authorship.»VG, five/six stars «The book has obvious hints to Franz Kafka»Dag og Natt «... a touching and uncomfortable portrait of a person in a dictatorship's violence.»Dagsavisen «Lars Saabye Christensen surprises and impresses – again.»Nettavisen «Lars Saabye Christensen's take on 1984—a George Orwellian dystopia carried by an atmosphere somewhere between The Handmaid's Tale and South Korea's Squid Game.(...) It is chilling! (...) Saabye revels in an eeriness that mirrors our own rampant newspeak.»Politiken "The Tropy Room is not a comfortable novel, but it is sharp. It works best as a sort of political fable about power, obedience, and moral decay. It is a book that does not seek so much to entertain as to unsettle—and to make the reader consider where the line is drawn between adapting and giving up."Kulturkappellet

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The time of the roses
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 352 pp

The time of the roses

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

Alise leaves Sommersholm in dishonour, after being accused of theft. But where can she go? Her father is dead, Birk has forsaken her, and she is pregnant. Soon the pregnancy will begin to show, and she won't be able to hide it any longer. Margerete is finally with Axel, but she is still struggling to be accepted by the rest of his family. She stumbles upon a key, which unlocks an old mystery. But perhaps it's for the better that the mystery stays unsolved? Rose, still in Denmark, is trying to find a way for the charges against Torkel to be dropped. She fears that if he's convicted, he will be hanged. Hugo offers her a deal — if she marries him, he will withdraw the accusation against Torkel. It's an impossible choice for Rose to make. The Time of the Roses is the final volume in the Sommersholm series.

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