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UpLit / Literature and Fiction2015–2019Clear all
Circus
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 320 pp

Circus

Magne Hovden

Funny, elegant and entertaining novel about a traveling circus and a woman's fateful choice. A cynical, self-centered businesswoman inherits a circus and sets out on a journey that introduces her to a world of traditions, dedication and camaraderie that gradually causes her to reevaluate how she'll spend the rest of her life.Sold to Germany, Italy, France and Estonia before it was launched in Norway!Hovden has succeeded in writing a colourful, satirical and catchy novel.DAGBLADETSend in the Clowns! ‘"I would rather shovel Elephant muck!" seems to be the moral of this cross over between Jonas Jonasson’s The Hundred Year Old Who Climed out the Window and Wall Street. In other words likeable and well written entertainment.’STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

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After Us
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

After Us

Gunn Marit Nisja

The year is 1967. After an exciting - and cataclysmic - year at folk high school, four girls go their own ways. They were going to be friends for life.Forty years later, Ingrid is alone after her husband Arvid suddenly passes away. Even though many years have passed, she summons up the courage to call one of her old friends. Both love and conflict soon come back to life. Perhaps it isn't too late for them after all.After us is a tender and warm novel about friendship, love, and the meaning of life.

Nude in Hijab
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 304 pp

Nude in Hijab

Gunn Marit Nisja

When Live and her friend travel to exotic Egypt, it ends up striking Live mid-heart. She ends up falling overwhelmingly in love with the local guide Kareem, marry him and move into his family home. But soon Kareem changes, and Live ends up trapped in a hijab. This book was nominated to the Norwegian Bookseller Award in 2016.

The Olive Stone
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

The Olive Stone

Gunn Marit Nisja

Hoda is 18 years old and supposed to be married off. Her family run Tree of Life, a popular inn next to the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. The inn is both a lively gathering place for western tourists, as well as a private home where the young daughters honour is under strict control. The family is introducing Hoda to a number of candidates for marriage, but within her completely different feelings are growing. When the Norwegian journalist Sigrid moves in and advises her to follow her own heart, it ends up having unexpected consequences for them both...

The Porcelaine Girl
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

The Porcelaine Girl

Gunn Marit Nisja

Kristin is in her late thirties, and to her mother´s great disappointment still single and childless. But her dream comes true when she opens the café Little Pots in the hamlet of Åndalsnes. At the night of the opening, nineteen year old Marta knocks on the door. Kristin hires Marta, even though the young girl is clearly marked by a dark past. When Kristin´s father dies abruptly, she is expected to come home and take over the family farm. Can she let her family down and follow her own path?

The Porter Residence
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 304 pp

The Porter Residence

Gøril Emilie Hellen

Ten year old Svanhild thinks she lives in the safest place in the world: the porter residence by the city hospital, where her father Johan has a post as a porter. She idolizes her brother Einar, almost ten years her elder, even though the adults say that his imagination has run wild. Svanhild is going to Girl Scout camp, but she misses her brother, who's been admitted to the psychiatric hospital. The day Svanhild comes home from camp, tragedy strikes. The Porter Residence is a poignant and poetic novel about a family that falls victim to the post-war healthcare system and treatment methods of that time.

Gooseberry Sisters
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2015 · 320 pp

Gooseberry Sisters

Siri Østli

Sisters Marilyn and Marlene are both named after Hollywood stars. But that is where the similarity ends. Marlene is the one with her life in perfect control – anything from fashion and her house to her life partner and ovulation. Still it is the enchanting 'My' who finds it easier to make friends – and have children. My's seemingly perfect life has just imploded. Her husband slept with the nanny, and now she’s left both him and her home. She's also lost her self-confidence. With her daughter Amanda, My has moved back in with her mother. There, My has to deal with journalists and gossipers, the helpless pony-tail-man who's her mother latest project, and the child protection services. But she also learns the importance of having a sister, and how to stand up straight when everything around her falls to pieces. Charming and well-written! This is a charming book, easy to read, funny and well-written. It has a colourful character gallery and just the right amount of complications. I am again struck by how brilliantly Siri Østli masters this genre. DAGBLADET

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