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Rejection
Literature and Fiction2022 · 272 pp

Rejection

Ingrid Brækken Melve

Rebekka wakes up at the hospital after a heart transplant. She has never thought of her body as her own, but rather a tool through which God has shown himself. The close, interwoven relationship with God is beautiful to her and offers her life meaning and cohesion. At the same time the relationship is painful, and Rebekka experiences God’s wrath when she seeks closeness with other people, without thinking about God. After waking up Rebekka looks back at her life so far. Can her new heart, which has been given to her because of someone else dying, show her a new way to live? At the same time, she is scared of losing what she’s had. Is a new and different life possible while still keeping her relationship with God? Is that really what she wants?REVIEWSHer entire earthly existence is at stake«It is rare that I encounter a debutant with such confidence in form and awareness of language. ... the author posesses a superb sense of empathy, and in all instances, great narrative skills.»ADRESSEAVIDEN, six out of six stars

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The Book of Tilia
Literature and Fiction2022 · 176 pp

The Book of Tilia

Silje Aanes Fagerlund

In The Book of Tilia we meet a woman who has become pregnant right before the end of a relationship. She decides to carry out the pregnancy alone, and all contact between herself and the baby’s father is ended. The novel is about the process the narrator goes through from the beginning of the pregnancy until the birth. Using a direct and sincere language the novel circles around the movement from fear and insecurity to gradual feelings of safety, from ambivalence to happiness, from weakness to strength, from isolation to moving out into the world as an expectant mother, and from winter to spring, summer and early autumn, where spring coincides with a change in the narrator’s emotional life. The Book of Tilia can also be considered a novel which deep down is about embracing life – and daring to explore the unknown.

Rune’s Woman
Literature and Fiction2022 · 224 pp

Rune’s Woman

Marianne Teie

After two poetry collections, Marianne Teie debuts as a novelist with a harrowing, desperate and humorous novel about a young woman in a crisis. The nameless protagonist, “Rune’s woman”, travels to a cabin in the country to get away from Rune, but being alone triggers all her memories and longing. She’s not as alone as she’d like to be, either. Rune’s Woman is a funny and dark novel about growing up, about the challenges of being a couple and about how difficult it is to find peace alone in a family cabin.

The Unworthy
Literature and Fiction2022 · 288 pp

The Unworthy

Roy Jacobsen

In Roy Jacobsen’s latest novel, The Unworthy, we follow a gang of boys and girls from an apartment building on the east side of Oslo during the WWII German occupation. They live in poverty, but they manage by creatively swindling, stealing like magpies, falsifying documents and committing extensive burglaries. They don’t shy away from exploiting the Enemy, either. With this pack of children, a lauded writer has rendered a brutally frank and warm portrait of a time, a place and an everyday life that thus far has been absent from the stories told of WWII. This is a Roy Jacobsen novel of best mark. The Unworthy is wise, brutal and entertaining. A gem of a story, written by an author in his right element. ReviewsA worthy and powerful reading experienceDramatic, interesting and exciting ... a fantastic picture of an environment and a time that not everyone knows today.Nettavisen, six/six starsNew first-rate novel by Jacobsen… once more Jacobsen wields the language in a nuanced, confident manner.Stavanger Aftenblad, six/six stars About ignoranceThe Unworthy has to be one of Roy Jacobsen's best novels.Klassekampen Brutal war novel from Roy JacobsenRoy Jacobsen is, as always, a master of details, environment and working methods.VG, five/six stars Good news from the Eastern front... the narrative offers surprising, humerous and cheeky touches that show Roy Jacobsen at his best.Dagsavisen Exciting like a thrillerThe characters are credibly drawn, the milieu renderings almost filmatic.Dagbladet, five/six stars The indifferent[Roy Jacobsen] has done it again. Created an environment and characters that will be remembered.Bok365, five/six starsIn full vigour Roy Jacobsen impresses again, both as astoryteller and a portrayer of people … an organic and unpredictable literary universe, as asymmetric and restless as life itself.DN The novel is incredibly well written and composed.Jyllands-Posten, Denmark Powerful historic realism.Weekendavisen, Denmark

Another masterwork by one of Norway’s foremost authors
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The Little Man from Argentina
Literature and Fiction2022 · 176 pp

The Little Man from Argentina

Kristian Klausen

One of the worst war criminals in history arrives in Drammen in May 1960. He has escaped his pursuers to start a new life and is renting a flat in a building in Konnerudgata. He gets a job as a night watchman at a paper mill. He frequents a local café and learns Norwegian. He enters into a relationship with the novel’s other main character, Martha Dreyer, an author who lives two floors above him. Due to this relationship, his usual defence mechanisms start to fail. He starts to feel guilty. But even though he is troubled by his actions, he still struggles to acknowledge the scope of them. The historical figure is Adolf Eichmann, one of those chiefly responsible for organising the Holocaust.

The New Season
Literature and Fiction2022 · 288 pp

The New Season

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo

The great new novel about Norway, love and life as a farmer, and moving into a new time The farmer has always been there. But what happens when the world, society, and climate changes – in ways that make it difficult to survive? Can the farmer still cultivate, create, build, live? Hans Junior has a majority share to the farm somewhere along the coast of Norway. Together with Hans Senior, he runs it as a dairy farm. But when his father becomes ill, and later passes away, he ends up being responsible on his own. A single man in the house and a lot of animals in the barn. One day the agricultural inspector Sylvi stops by to inspect the farming and animal welfare. She gets a cup of coffee when she’s about to drive away, as well as an invite for a ride on his boat. Hans Junior has an island he usually goes out to, where witchcraft was reportedly practiced in earlier times. Sylvi returns to the farm several times, and after a fairly short time she moves in. When she looks at Hans, she thinks: “There is my husband.” Both have always longed to belong to another human, and on the beautiful farm by the sea they experience a strong connection. The cows in the barn start changing their behaviour, the Sitka spruce between the farm and the sea grows tighter – the nature is changing in challenging ways, and Sylvi and Hans do what they can. Sylvi is affected by an unexplainable illness and goes to their neighbour Siriporn, who’s just arrived from Thailand and offers massages from a room at the farm. Siriporn and Johan’s property borders ancient monastery ruins, and Siriporn has big plans for alternative operations. The New Season contains lots of drama, is full of the sea, death and love, humans, and pets. The novel is moving and evocative. The mixture of realism and something close to apocalyptic is something truly unique. The world is changing, sometimes in ways we can barely imagine. The starting point for The New Season is traditionally Norwegian and classic, but the novel is simultaneously innovative – it explores how well-known landscapes are changed by the times we live in. All of this viewed through the gazes of two beautiful humans doing what they can to survive. The New Season is the first title of a planned trilogy.REVIEWS The curse of the Sitka spruce«Hofstad Evjemo writes well. In a tactile manner. It smells strongly in the dairy building, the fireweed looms outside the windows. At the absence of rain, you can feel the thirst scrape your palate. (…) It’s told in a lively manner, with drive in its sentences. (…) it’s a joy to read The New Season. A novel which shines a particularly warning and especially important light on humans overstepping on nature. Because there will be a price to pay, as we all know. And the new season, where did it go? Well, it will come to us all, if it’s not already here.»BOK365.NOFive/Six stars Practical farming for the apocalypse«… timeless picture of the apocalypse, which also holds mythical qualities. (…) Some of these renderings are close to the striking horror which can be found in the novels of Cormac McCarthy, without ever losing the work and days of the farmer from sight.»MORGENBLADET A gem of a novel«The New Season is a highlight among this autumn’s titles, and will be remembered as one of the best Norwegian novels of the year.»ADRESSEAVISAFive/Six stars«The story flows calmly along, interspersed with glimmers of poetry and humour. It's all kept with tight, literary reins.»DAGSAVISEN«Beautiful and gripping novel about everyday heroism.»STAVANGER AFTENBLADFive/Six stars

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The last potato dumpling
Literature and Fiction2022 · 104 pp

The last potato dumpling

Arild Rossebø

One day we will all die. Generally, our parents die before us. Sometimes they die suddenly, sometimes we get the chance to say goodbye. Sometimes thedying person does not talk about the fact that it will soon be over. Even one’s own family sometimes won’t say that it is the end. Sometimes in life, ones’ father may be dead without you knowing. In Arild Rossebø’s debut novel The Last Potato Dumpling we get to know a grown son – who, in the beginning of the book, follows his mother through her last days, before we later see him in his father’s funeral. Within a short period of time, both his parents are gone. But his father actually disappeared many years ago. The Last Potato Dumpling is the story about a family and everything that happened when the family was dissolved. It is also a story about food and traditions, about being a little boy and a grown man. I was getting my head around the situation: A person in Haugesund tells my aunt on my mothers side who calls my uncle on my mothers side in Stavanger who calls me in Madrid. Three steps before the son. Arild Rossebø´s tight novel about belonging somewhere is equally funny and emotionally charged. The key to stories like this oneoften lies in defining scenes that manage to tie the threads together effectively. Rossebø masters this format well. VÅRT LAND

Hidden under snow
Mystery and Crime2022 · 400 pp

Hidden under snow

Hilde S. Palladino

Hidden under snow is a character-driven psychological crime fiction novel. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is witness to the brutal suicide of one of her former clients – Azora. Among Azora’s possessions was a photograph of Bjørk, with the words ‘I know why you have nightmares’ written on it. Bjørk has always had terrible nightmares – nightmares she’s never mentioned to anyone else. So how could Azora have known about them, and why did she have that photo of Bjørk? Both the police and Bjørk search for the link between them. A link that connects the two and their lives more closely than Bjørk was even aware of herself. This work of psychological crime fiction is a fascinating dive into repressed memory and how the past and one’s upbringing can shape and impact them – even if they don’t remember it.Exciting and well-written crime debut with plenty of drive«... many surprises and people who both interests and moves us. ... Palladino writes with great energy.»Stavanger Aftenblad Efficient new Norwegian crime!«… an elaborate debut. … H. S. Palladino (53) is a Norwegian crime writer debutant with a firm grip on her tools. … The revelations towards the novel’s end, regarding Azora’s fate and Bjørk’s own past, will likely surprise even the most alert of readers.»VG A book full of surprisesEfficiently written, uses a number of smart crime-thriller methods that keeps the reader attention. Romsdals budstikke

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Where White Lilies Grow
Literature and Fiction2022 · 288 pp

Where White Lilies Grow

Jorid Mathiassen

After a devastating break-up, Linnea is aching to get out of Oslo and start over someplace else. When Linnea’s best friend offers to let her stay in an old house in Northern Norway, set on a small island, Linnea finds herself packing her bags. The big house with a beautiful garden belonged to her friend’s great-aunt Marie, who lived there in solitude until her recent death. Linnea has no idea what awaits her when she arrives on the windy little island in the pitch-black of a stormy winter evening. But one day, she stumbles upon a small clock that leads her to discover a dramatic story. It has to do with Marie’s past, and why she lived all by herself for so many years. The storyline plays out across two periods of time, but as Linnea discovers more about Marie's dramatic past, her own life will also take a new turn. Where White Lilies Grow is a beautiful, breathtaking story about the brutality of war and the power of lifelong love.

Inspired by the Blood Road in Northern Norway from WW2
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I’m the One Who Can Help You
Literature and Fiction2022 · 320 pp

I’m the One Who Can Help You

Kjersti Halvorsen

Psychologist Edvin works at the Kvervel Palace. He is engaged and soon to be a father for the first time. One day, he gets a new patient, André. Edvin knows him from his childhood but hesitates to tell his boss about their relationship. He is ashamed and unable to say more than ‘we went to school together’, which really doesn’t cover it. Edvin was bullied, and André was the bully. Now they have to deal with each other on a daily basis.Why did André start taking drugs? Did Edvin have anything to do with what happened? Why was life so cruel to André but kind to Edvin? Or haslife been kind to him? Kjersti Halvorsen writes about complicated topics such as power, addiction, revenge and reconciliation in an entertaining way.

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Det som går tapt
Literature and Fiction2022 · 272 pp

Det som går tapt

Bernhard Ellefsen

The climate crisis often evokes feelings of pessimism, but it also drives people to demand political change. What Will Be Lost highlights one of the most important things we can all do in the current situation: read. Through this book, we are invited on a journey through nature and literature, to learn about how, together, they can educate us. On a mission to investigate how travel and nature literature can influence us, the way Bernhard Ellefsen writes about such books is engaging. His writing seeks to understand how this literature could help all of us to comprehend the new, frightening world of which we live. What Will Be Lost is a book about literature and nature, about how one can help us to see and understand the other.

Suit and tie
Literature and Fiction2022 · 208 pp

Suit and tie

Aksel Selmer

Willy lost his mother one year ago. He was the one who found her dead by the bottom of the stairs to the basement. He misses her intensely. He’s still not the boy his father wanted him to be. Father wanted Willy to become just as dedicated a clothing director as he is. Therefore, he drives Willy to an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. That’s where he will become strong and independent, that’s where he will become a man. Willy soon discovers that the school is not his style. Finally, back home in his small town, his days become a fight to please father, to please his surroundings, to find his place in school, to find friends, to find himself, to survive. Suit and Tie is a strong and captivating story about loneliness, longing, and identity. It’s a standalone follow-up to Knife and Fork (2002) which excited both critics and readers, also in Denmark, and was considered by many to be the author’s breakout novel.