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Where Nobody would have Though that Anybody could Live
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 240 pp

Where Nobody would have Though that Anybody could Live

Oddgeir Bruaset

The book Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu is based on one of the most popular Norwegian TV documentary series of recent times.What is it about this programme that has kept it popular for twelve years? That is the question which this book sets out to answer. We meet people who have chosen a different life, far from the restless urban milieu. People who want a simpler life, but who also have the courage to uproot and actually choose that life. A life where satisfaction with a hard day's work is betterreward than a ‘like' posting on social media.Bruaset writes about eleven places and the people who live there.What these people have in common, is that they have sought and found the good life in a remote place. Encouraging stories and gripping life-histories.

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Good enough for those Bastards
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 184 pp

Good enough for those Bastards

Anita Krohn Traaseth

Anita Krohn Traaseth is a top manager who is not afraid to tell her story. She defends who she is and says that who you are and what you do is good enough. It is not about being perfect, but about being real. If you're going to reach the top, you need to let go of perfectionism. In this book, Anita Krohn Traaseth writes in a personal and humorous way about her road to the top, about daring to be seen, rising to challenges and embracing working life with all the joy, challenges and possibilities it provides for personal growth. She provides advice for those struggling to find their place between being a manager in an enclosed space and new openness where we cheer one another on and dare to be noticed in both meeting rooms and in public like the fallible people we are. This is a modern management book for those who want it all: a great job and a family. 49.000 copies in print in Norway! Win or disappear ‘Good enough is undoubtedly a useful motto for clever girls of both genders.’ DAGSAVISEN Women reach the top ‘Good enough for those Bastards is in any case a much more truthful and refreshing formulation which permits the disclosure of the arrogance which exists in the career world. It’s impossible not to appreciate Traaseth’s frankness.' DAGBLADET

Hjalmar Dale – The Forgotten Adventurer
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 272 pp

Hjalmar Dale – The Forgotten Adventurer

Randulf Valle

In the winter of 1927–28 Helge Ingstad and Hjalmar Dale were fur-trappers in the Canadian wilderness. Four years later Ingstad published Pelsjegerliv and secured his place in Norwegian literary history. The book has been very influential as an inspiration forgenerations of wilderness explorers.This new book about Hjalmar Dale is partly a biography and partly a description of the pioneering time in Canada. Hjalmar Dale lived among the fur trappers and gold prospectors. He was attracted to adventure and he travelled through huge wildernesses by canoe and dog team. The blank spaces on the map disappeared gradually, and Dale's death marked the end of the pioneer time.If Helge Ingstad and Hjalmar Dale had not met, Pelsjegerliv would never have been written. Ingstad might just have come home after two unsuccessful years in Canada. He would never have been to Greenland and never have been District Governor of Svalbard. Many of the people who were inspired by Ingstad might perhaps have led quite different lives. Lars Monsen might never have crossed Canada; Robert Sørlie might never have raced dog teams; and Stein P. Aasheim might have got a proper job. 'Hjalmar Dale from West Norway was Helge Ingstad’s teacher. Randulf Valle’s biography gives a vivid picture of his life as a tracker in the wilderness of Northern Canada a hundred years ago. (…) Hjalmar Dale is the most significant supporting character in one of the most important books in Norwegian literature. So he deserves a biography of his own. Valle’s book can also be read in relation to Ingstad’s Pelsjegerliv (The Life of the Fur Trapper), and the author points out how this book differs from Amundsen’s and Nansen’s books: Ingstad’s book is not about mapping new lands, an era of scientific discovery and the national renown which follows..'DAG OG TID 'Randulf Valle’s book is both authoritative and well-written. It will be of interest to all who want to develop a thorough understanding of how people have done their utmost to explore new regions and make use of the natural resources to be found there. This is both a biography and a cultural history.'GUDBRANDSDØLEN DAGNINGEN 'Randulf Valle’s book about seeking an alternative life in the wilderness is fascinating. Many people know of Hjalmar Dale through Helge Ingstad’s debut book, Pelsjegerliv, published in 1931. Valle achieves a fine balance between good story-telling and accurate history.'NULL

In the Wake of Hatred
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 192 pp

In the Wake of Hatred

Øyvind Strømmen

I hatets fotspor looks at modern hatred towards Muslims. Where does this hatred come from? How and why did it come about? Early in the book we are introduced to ’Jørgen’, who was involved in online debates and met Breivik after a political event in Oslo in December 2009. ’Jørgen’ says that he – when looking back – feels that both his thoughts and the thoughts of others were characterised by a kind of gloomy darkness at that time in 2009. This negative message and hatred was regurgitated again and again, and repeated on different websites. He now thinks it necessary to look at recent history to understand how this hate was able to blossom and to explain the tragedy of the terror attacks in Oslo and the shootings on Utøya Island 22nd July 2011. With this as the foundation, the book takes us on several journeys. One of them goes to Luton, described by extreme right-wing websites as a kind of hell on Earth. Another goes to Bosnia, where a hatred of Muslims resulted in the massacre in Srebrenica. The story of hatred towards Muslims is also highlighted through the story of a suicide at Notre Dame and a story of a young man who ran amok in the streets of Antwerp. The book also looks closely at the evolution of the so-called antijihad blogosphere, and discusses the English Defence League and how the so-called Eurabia way of thinking has spread ‘One of the best-informed Norwegian journalists when it comes to fascism and Muslim hatred in Europe. … I hatets fotspor is characterised by Øyvind Strømen’s great narrative and unique perspective. He starts with his own experiences and blends thorough research with interviews and reports in a form of prose which seems both reliable and built on a wide range of verifiable sources.’Klassekampen ‘The Norwegian public changed after the events of 22nd July, and one of the reasons for this is a man called Øyvind Strømmen. His main point is that solo terrorist Breivik was not a lone wolf – he was part of a pack.’VG

Hamsun and Hitler
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 400 pp

Hamsun and Hitler

Tore Rem

WINNER OF THE NORWEGIAN CRITICS AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION 2014On Saturday 26th June 1943, Hitler granted one of his rare audiences to a writer, the Norwegian Knut Hamsun, then generally hailed as the greatest living writer of the Germanic peoples, a contemporary Goethe. The meeting started jovially, but ended in disaster. While Hamsun insisted on his loyalty to the Führer, he also spoke out against him, interrupting a man who was not used to being interrupted. A furious Hitler ended the conversation after 45 minutes – and Hamsun and his entourage left in disappointment.This is the first time this spectacular event in Norwegian and European cultural history has been used as the basis for an entire book. Knut Hamsun – Reisen til Hitler explores the trappings of literary genius and authority, as well as the uses of culture in Nazi Germany.The book's main narrative, the seven-day journey to and from the meeting, ends with an epilogue which includes Hamsun's obituary for Hitler, published on 7th May 1945.After a teaser which takes the reader straight into the journey, the book – in order to establish the premises of what took place – considers a few episodes from Hamsun's life up until 1943. These include his attempt at doing away with the father figure Ibsen, his Nobel Prize and rise to fame, how he became the favourite of the German far right, his interventions on behalf of Nazi Germany during the war, his antisemitism and his allegiance to the idea of the Germanic peoples, as well as Goebbels' glowing reception of his favourite writer in May 1943. A month later Knut Hamsun sets off to Vienna as the star attraction of a big Nazi propaganda show, a congress of Nazi journalists. It is after having been celebrated as a great success in the second capital of the Reich, Hamsun is flown on to Berghof, Hitler's mountain residence in Southern Bavaria. Samples from what the press has said about KNUT HAMSUN – REISEN TIL HITLER:‘ ... an audience hit, suitable for a tabloid audience, a literary audience, Second World War nerds and anyone looking for a Christmas present for Dad. This story has something in it to fascinate everyone ... Tore Rem is a skilled storyteller ... a lively mediator who will be met with interest and curiosity.’ AFTENPOSTEN‘The book is a biographical masterpiece.’ DEMOKRATEN‘It takes a skilled wordsmith to write well about Hamsun, the man who despite his political views was a wizard with words and whose books still hold readers spellbound all over the world. Tore Rem is up to the job. It is a joy to read Reisen til Hitler. Rem brings recent history to life in tremendously exciting ways, with a burning passion .’ VG‘ ... a liberating book. Liberating because Rem approaches the difficult Hamsun debate in a wise, open and thorough manner ... relates to the material in a non-judgmental way.’ KLASSEKAMPEN‘Tore Rem’s compelling and important book ... He is sensitive in his demonstration of Hamsun’s transformation from anti-authoritarian individualist to rigid, leading literary figure ... Rem ... empowers the author in an exemplary manner.’ MORGENBLADET‘Meticulous, exciting and overwhelmingly well documented ... Tore Rem’s work on Knut Hamsun's meeting with Hitler has become a full-bodied, often very exciting and insightful piece of work ...’ DAGSAVISEN‘ ... adds energy and topicality to one of the nation's biggest cultural debates over the past 70 years ... Well composed, fresh and innovative ... a reading experience.’ NRK‘ ... told in a flexible language and with a firm narrative technique ... sensational new material ... not just a pleasure to read, but also an exceptionally beautiful book.’ FÆDRELANDSVENNEN‘Rem presents a wealth of new material, a superb storyteller.’ DAGBLADET‘Rem’s excellent Hamsun biography … documents … once and for all that Hamsun was a convinced Nazi from the 1930s until the end of his life.’ BERGENS TIDENDE‘ … a very competent storyteller … The language is extremely precise, and yet comes across as free and easy … the build-up creates excitement and takes well care of the dramatic components in this highly spectactular story.’ HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD‘ … a harrowing presentation of Knut Hamsun’s Nazism. This is tortuous reading … succeeds fully in its narrative strategy; the book stands triumphant in its choice of genre.’ PROSA‘ … probes deeper than anyone before him … in all sorts of ways a remarkable story. Rem has dug up a great number of new details.’ INFORMATION (Denmark)Selected among the critics’ ‘Book of the Year’ in Dagbladet, Morgenbladet, Vårt Land, Klassekampen, Adresseavisa and Fædrelandsvennen

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With Devotion
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2014 · 184 pp

With Devotion

Asbjørn Bjornes / Henrik Syse

Henrik Syse is a philosopher, researcher and Sunday School teacher. He does regular religious broadcasts which have a good following. He believes that prayer and religious reflection are still important in our society. His aim with the broadcast devotions, whether the listener is religious or not, is to stimulate reflection and discussion of life's important questions. In this book he has put together the devotions from 2010 to 2014 and written two philosophical essays on people and faith. Contents: Part 1: In the middle of everyday life Part 2: Adversity – and hope Part 3: Faith and doubt – theological and philosophical reflections Part 4: Christmas Part 5: Easter Part 6: Pentecost Part 7: Jesus – Is it possible to talk about God today

Second Best
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 288 pp

Second Best

Gudmund Skjeldal

Gold, silver and bronze medals were first given to Olympic winners in St. Louis, USA, in 1904. But why these particular metals? Did the idea come from the USA? Does the inspiration stretch right back to antiquity? Or is the tradition more recent, from royal and state medals?Gudmund Skjeldal took second place in the 50 km ski race at Holmenkollen in 1993, after being in the lead up to the last kilometre. The story of this race forms the framework for his personal explorations of the history of gold, silver and bronze.A bronze medallist is often happy at having only just missed the silver. It's worse to be a silver medallist, who could so nearly have been the Olympic champion. Like Juha Mieto at the Olympic Games at Lake Placid in 1980, one hundredth of a second behind the gold medallist in the cross-country ski race. Gold is both a crowning achievement and a curse. The gymnast Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect 10.0 at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976. She won three gold medals at the age of fourteen. After perfection, what next?Gudmund Skjeldal is a critically acclaimed author who writes about the history of ideas. As a former member of the national ski team, he is the ideal person to write this book. 'It’s a thrilling run and a pure pleasure to read.'RUNNER'S WORLD'… draws us into the story to share the sense of defeat.’BERGENS TIDENDE ’Gudmund Skjeldal succeeds in combining entertaining stories about athletics with a moral message for our time … Skjeldal’s gentle, intelligent prose is observant, thoughtful and vivid social critique at its best.’MORGENBLADET

Survival Techniques for the Young Elderly
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 224 pp

Survival Techniques for the Young Elderly

Klara Bøe / Petter Henriksen

The sixty-something year-old is approaching the quiet life of a pensioner. It's time to reap the harvest of all these years of fulfilling duties, surrender to old age and relax. That's what you think! Instead you realise that new expectations have grown up: the joyous ambitions for a rich life. Welcome to the hard world of the young elderly!There are lots of new things you have to master – or steel yourself against. This book shows you how. With a combination of friendly concern and biting ruthlessness, the authors describe the wide choice of roles which the young elderly are expected to master: Style icon (stay elegant); Globetrotter (see the world) Kitchen god or goddess (please your family and friends); Tough guy (control the physical decline); Intellectual (control the mental decline); Proprietor (manage property); Social animal (cultivate relationships with a growing circle of friends); Culture buff (keep up-to-date with cultural life); Play leader (spoil the grandchildren); Senior consultant (stay in the management network); Carer (give your own parents a dignified old age).A humorous slant at the many challenges of being a pensioner and how best to tackle them.

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Challenging tours in Norway
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 240 pp

Challenging tours in Norway

Aleksander Gamme

Tøffe turer i Norge follows on from the successful series Turer med trøkk, but this time we stay in Norway.12 authors describe their dream tours – on foot, on horseback, with dog teams, ski, kayak, canoe or climbing rope. Every part of Norway is represented, from the moors of Sørlandet in the south to Finnmark in the furthest north. Some waded rivers from source to outflow, and others followed the coast in a sea kayak. Some have crossed right over Norway, at different places and in different directions. One family travelled by dog team to a simple hut on the Finnmark plateau to experience something quite different. Known and unknown mountains are trod by people who have done this sort of thing before.The book is richly illustrated and includes simple maps.Contributors: Aleksander Gamme, Kristian Reinskau Knudsen, Per Roger Lauritzen, Aleksander Myklebust, Marthe Stavaas Nelson, Kristin Folsland Olsen, Marius Nergård Pettersen, Birgit Ryningen, Randi Skaug, Randulf Valle, Håkon Vang Aas og Stein P. Aasheim.

A Year in the Woods
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 208 pp

A Year in the Woods

Torbjørn Ekelund

As a boy he used to dream of hazardous expeditions to unmapped regions. Thirty years later he came to understand that the dream would never come true. He did not have the guts. And besides, there were no unmapped regions left. But nature was still there. He decided to make his dreams real, just downscale it a bit. He packed his backpack and spent twelve lonesome nights in the woods, and the result is this book. A Year in the Woods is the antitheses of great expeditions. There is no hunger or famish, no dangerous predators, no fighting for life and death. But it is a book about seeing nature and about our idea of being outdoors. It is a book about the changing of the seasons, about finding the closer parts of nature and about how little it actually takes to experience an adventure. But first and foremost, it is a book about one man trying to find the way back to the forest where he spent so much time as a child. The era of great expeditions is over. Now is the time for micro expeditions.A refreshingly modest style with liberating little observations in an appealing low tempo about occasional escape from the daily grind.DAGBLADET Thorbjørn Ekelund has written a little pearl of a book about twelve micro expeditions. It is incredibly inspiring to read about how a need to be outdoors has resulted in twelve nights under the stars, one in each of the years twelve months. Ekelund is a true inspiration to all of us who are in a time clinch and would want to spend more time out in nature.NRK

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Berlin
Narrative Non-fiction2013 · 448 pp

Berlin

Torgrim Eggen

This book is a portrait of a city and a work of modern Cultural history. Torgrim Eggen follows the fate of Berlin from the fall of the Kaiser in 1918 to the present day. In the 20th century, Berlin was the world's focus – from the Revolution through Nazism and the Cold War to a reunited city. There is still no European capital that concerns us more. This book portrays the city's brutal history, but also some of its extraordinarypersonalities like Marlene Dietrich, Rosa Luxemburg, Berthold Brecht, Willy Brandt, Albert Speer and David Bowie. The modern history of Berlin is a tale of many new beginnings, both in politics and in architecture. And the vision for the city is always the same, whether its origins are in the empire, the national socialist or the communist period: to control and overcome the changeability of Berlin and show it off as stable and lasting, indeed, eternal.From a personal point of view, Torgrim Eggen gives us an insightful and nuanced account of an irresistible city.‘The spectacular and quaint prevail in this book, but the new journalism style is actually quite fitting to Berlin's temperament and dramatic history. ... It is essentially a well-written and knowledgeable book. … Eggen is one of Norway’s few golden pens, an author who neither is capable of nor willing to write in a boring fashion.’Klassekampen ‘An interesting book, with emphasis on a Western perspective. ... He writes so well and thoroughly about the creation of Bowie's masterpiece ‘Heroes’ (both the song and the album) that tears appear in the corner of my eye.’Dagbladet

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The Black Thread
Narrative Non-fiction2013 · 432 pp

The Black Thread

Øyvind Strømmen

When terror hit Norway on the 22nd July 2011, the freelance journalist Øyvind Strømmen had already spent several years studying right-wing extremism on the internet. During the confused days following the explosions of the bomb, his was the voice that could offer some kind of perspective on these incomprehensible events. In Det mørke nettet (2011) he showed that the attitudes and hatreds manifest in Oslo and on Utøya on 22nd July could be traced back into our own past and to right-wing extremist parties and groups all across Europe. In Den sorte tråden, Strømmen follows radicalism on the right further back in time and gives an overview of this form of extremist ideas, from the fascism of the 1920s, via the late 1960s skinheads – in Norway, the 1990s boot-boys – to the contrajihadism of today. Strømmen is still a young man, but has already established himself as one of the leading authorities in this field. In 2011, he was voted the “Freelancer of the Year”. In Den sortetråden, he is adding to the foundations of what looks certain to become a long and important career as a writer. ‘It is warmly recommended to all who want to understand more about extreme actions and extreme lines of thought. But, better read it in day-light.’ “Dice points: 5 Fædrelandsvennen‘A clear account for those who want to grasp what European right-wing extremism is all about ... Today’s politicians must find the courage to confront worlds of thought that are so hostile to mankind. Strømmen is a model of clarity on this topic. He deserves gratitude for this important book.’Vårt Land ‘A well-written, educational and very well-informed book and, besides, exceptionally timely.Klassekampen‘The strength of this book lies in its detailed presentations of different movements, from the socially acceptable anti-Semitism of the 19th century to today’s marginalised but noisy contra-jihadists. Strømmen delivers solid documentation.’Dagsavisen ‘Strømmen has completed a massive task in order to establish a narrative that exposes the continuity of political violence, including in Norway. It follows that Den sorte tråden is a very important contribution, not only to public understanding, but also for those who write about Norway’s history.’Aftenposten ‘… reliable and engaging about political extremism.’Stavanger Aftenblad ‘And Den sorte tråden meets one’s expectations. Strømmen’s historical overview is at best very thoroughly backed by research into primary sources, full of detail and easy to read. The author has a striking ability to follow up lines of thought and perceive ideological parallels across country boundaries. Few others in Norway combine Strømmen’s insight into the history of right-wing extremism, political mass movements and the radical internet forums with his journalist’s instinct and eagerness to investigate the news of the day.’Minerva ‘Øyvind Strømmen has written and interesting and useful book’Dag og tid