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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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(DEVIL’S SPAWN)
Mystery and Crime2014 · 336 pp

(DEVIL’S SPAWN)

Elisabeth Gulbrandsen / Chris Tvedt

In the first book about crime squad investigator Edvard Matre, Av jord er du kommet, Edvard's sweetheart Victoria killed the man who murdered her friend. Edvard helped her to dispose of the body. At the end of the second book, Den blinde guden, Victoria travelled back to Bergen and confessed to the murder.Djevelens barn starts with the case against Victoria being dropped due to lack of evidence. Edvard has so far avoided being fired due to his involvement, but he has been transferred to a new department set up to look into cases of missing child asylum seekers. All Edvard wants is to get his old job as a homicide detective back.One day, a worried young woman comes into his office. A thirteen year old boy has disappeared from the reception where she works and no one seems to care. Against his will, Edvard starts looking into the case, but soon he realises that something is very, very wrong.In Bergen, Victoria can't live with her guilt. She is obsessed with the idea of finding out the identity of the man she killed. She eventually receives help from recently retired policeman Preben Jordal, who also struggles to put the case from his mind. But finding out more about a murder is not without danger. Just because it's done and buried doesn't mean it's dead…There is little more to say except to congratulate on a smartly completed work... Superbly exciting and intelligently plotted.’VG‘Den blinde gudenis Chris Tvedt’s second book about DI Edvard Matre. The first one was good, the second one just as good.’DAGBLADET ‘This is a story which accelerates immensely. The tensions built into several storylines are tightened at the same time throughout the 92 brisk chapters. Well plotted, elegantly invented and, definitely, no happy end. This will become a TV series, the only question is how soon.’BERGENS TIDENDE Crime fiction with thriller features and multiple tense, slowly unravelling storylines.’ADRESSEAVISEN ‘Chris Tvedt and Elisabeth Guldbrandsen occasionally write great passages that are fit to be filmed. The heart-breaking opening scene and the videoed account of the robbery hit the reader where it hurts.’BERGENSAVISEN ‘Den blinde guden is one of the more believable narratives that have so far emerged out of this autumn’s flow of crime fiction. Believability doesn’t make any less exciting than everybody else’s hunts for serial killers, but rather the opposite.’ DAGSAVISEN

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Double Life
Literature and Fiction2014 · 256 pp

Double Life

Eivind Buene

Eivind Buene picks up musical threads from the novels Enmannsorkester and Allsang, and takes them further in a collection of literary essays. These texts listen, investigate and postulate, but most of all, they ask questions. What can music teach us about slowness? What stories can Glenn Gould's piano stool tell? Why do we talk about writing a song? What does a Norwegian novel sound like – and what is it about Gustav Mahler? ‘After reading this I feel much smarter and more sensitive.’ KLASSEKAMPEN ‘Thoughtful and well-written novel about music and literature, and the relationship between them.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD ‘... and I find myself hoping that Buene will be invited to lecture on music in Norwegian schools.’ P2

Doomsday
Literature and Fiction2014 · 192 pp

Doomsday

Kjersti Wøien Håland

Judgement Day (Dommedøgn) is a disaster novel about Berg, a little village on the west coast of Norway where the mountains tower over the village and the fjord stretches deep beneath them. A village whose continued existence has been secured all these years because of a factory which has now closed. A place where the rational and productive human being is flanked by a powerful and irrational nature which would increasingly have its own way. What will happen to them when the structures they have spent their entire lives building, fall? We follow five characters: the prophetic and strange teenager Linn is sure that something bad is going to happen. She is tormented by bullies, but awaits a greater catastrophe. Her only friend in the world is Fiver, her rabbit, who she thinks is psychic. Ingrid is the mayor trying desperately to attract new businesses to the town with help from national reorganisation, but she is constantly exploited. Gard, a misanthropist and recently unemployed drug addict who does everything he can to disturb the standstill. Care nurse Cecilie who makes friends with an elderly patient and helps her to die, but becomes so disturbed by this act that she leaves the body where it is and observes the slow process of decay. Lars, a naïve and self-appointed inventor who is working with a machine that will bring new business to the disillusioned village, a machine which packs waste into squares. All of them are trying to give meaning to an existence which seems to have lost it, but from the mountain and out over the fjord hangs a rock which constantly threatens to fall into the water. ‘Håland shows insight into the dynamics of the local community. She presents oblique reflections from both the town hall and pub with linguistic freshness. ... For those of us who fear or are fascinated by catastrophe, Dommedøgn is a somewhat erratic but entertaining literary supplement.’ KLASSEKAMPEN ‘Pulse racing: adrenaline pumps throughout this postmodern portrait that Kjersti Wøien Håland has painted of a village in a crisis. ... Kjesti Wøien Håland has a poetic streak that is all her own, and is without a doubt a literary talent in full development.’ DAG OG TID ‘Kjersti Wøien Håland has written an illustrious novel about a village on its deathbed.’ Nomination jury for the Young Critics’ Prize

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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Aestethic Bliss
Literature and Fiction2014 · 168 pp

Aestethic Bliss

Stig Sæterbakken

Stig Sæterbakken was a sharp essayist and wrote essays through most of his authorship. His first collection Aesthetic Bliss (Estetisk salighet) from 1994 was written over a five year period and relates to "The Aesthetic Dimension" within different expressions of art, such as literature, film, painting and sculpting. "He is one of the most gifted essayists of Norway."MORGENBLADET"Sæterbakkens essays give us at least fifteen reasons to use art."ARBEIDERBLADET

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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THIS IS GOODBYE TO NOVELS
Literature and Fiction2014 · 128 pp

THIS IS GOODBYE TO NOVELS

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

On the evening of 17 June 2010, Ingvar Ambjørnsen makes a snap decision to stop writing novels. It just comes to him. He's been writing, just like always. He's written the first forty pages of Brev til en uvenn, and he's not dissatisfied with what he's written. He reads it through and thinks it's good. He can do this. He's in control. But then, his thoughts turn on him: this is no good. He can't keep on doing this. He doesn't believe in himself anymore. Maybe he never has. And it's not the first time he's had this thought this spring or summer. It's come to him on a regular basis, and now, apparently, it's here to stay. But giving up being a novelist is a serious decision. Because he is a novelist. What else could he do? In Farvel til romanen, we follow Ingvar Ambjørnsen through a dramatic June day which threatens to turn his life upside down.