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Greenhouse Nights
Literature and Fiction2022 · 176 pp

Greenhouse Nights

Tom Ingar Eliassen

Greenhouse Nights is a short story collection about the demanding love between people that are changing, that are searching, sometimes for a place to be alone but just as often looking for connection with others. They revolve around the revealing moments where everything is at stake. They are about surviving, holding on or letting go. These things can be both upsetting and beautiful, difficult and simple, but deep down they are unavoidable. A married couple finds solace by driving down to the fjord. A woman meets her lover at a pub. They drink beer and watch downhill skiing on the television while waiting for her husband. Someone remembers a midnight bath in Saint-Tropez.A family is dissolved and the husband escapes into a water park. The lights of a fair ground lights up the bedroom of a man who has fallen silent. It is both harrowing and beautiful, hard and simple. We meet ourselves in the great loneliness where everything is lost or won. And it moves us, weather we want it to or not.

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Under Pain of Death
Mystery and Crime2022 · 368 pp

Under Pain of Death

Hanne Gellein

At Moveien care home the residents seem frightened, scared, and confused. Lately there have been exceptionally many deaths following an unusually tough flu season, and at the same time there is little money for maintenance. One of the patients with dementia, Alma Lien, broke through the closed doors and was found frozen to death outside. The string of deaths worries pathologist Silje Andersen, and she suspects something might be seriously wrong. But how can she prove it? Elderly people dying is completely natural. Under Pain of Death is Hanne Gellein’s second crime novel and is a character-driven psychological crime novel inspired by reality. It shows to what extent a distorted human mind can decide to defend its gruesome actions. Religious fanaticism, distorted self-image, and the art of trusting oneself are key themes in this novel.

Ego
Literature and Fiction2022 · 160 pp

Ego

Ebba Eiring

What happens between people when someone dies, gets married, ventures out on a sailing trip for two, finds themselves responsible for a stepchild, jumps on a train some place on the other side of the world, or when someone returns to their old stomping grounds and childhood home, after years of being away? These short stories explore the nature of close relationships, those between: flatmates, best friends, parents and children, partners, siblings. Ebba Eiring writes astutely about those that can fall apart, and those that may just stand the test of time. His girlfriend has left, and the young man is standing alone in his apartment wearing sweatpants, with a withering avocado plant and quite some aggression he needs to vent. On his way to the store, he meets again the girl who many years ago was standing at the bus stop, suitcase packed, getting away from the village. Siv would like to have Martin all to herself, be his girlfriend, have sex on the sofa or the kitchen counter just when they feel like it. But every other week Vilde is there. Vilde is Martins little daughter, and with her there everything is different. Awkward and weird. Siv wants to be a good bonus mom, but on the inside, she is a grumpy bitch. Ebba Eiring writes with sharp wit about things that might be broken, and things that might last.

Dear Ditch
Literature and Fiction2022 · 184 pp

Dear Ditch

Gro Dahle

Dear Ditch is a collection of poetry about the municipality. With a distinctive warmth and humanism Gro Dahle writes about humans, animals, and landscapes, while displaying failure and deficiencies, failed politics, both well-meaning and calculated. And hope! Somewhere a line must be drawn, says the municipality. Because somewhere the municipality must begin. The term “municipality” used to be a fairly dry word, but when so many municipalities in Norway were combined in 2020 it became loaded with emotions, engagement, new content. In this collection of poetry, we meet the local GP, the principal, the janitor, the hairdresser, the badger, the maple tree, the mayor, the buildings in the area, the roads and the pipes – and the dead.

Coloured, Stained, Now
Literature and Fiction2022 · 104 pp

Coloured, Stained, Now

Eira Søyseth

Who are we in relation to others, to our family? What does sizes such as heritage and family matter? In the poetry collection Coloured, Stained, Nowit’s all about understanding oneself as part of generations of humans, generational heritage and traces, “mother lines” as one of the poems put it. But this is also a feminist collection of poetry about being a young woman today; about concentration and distractions, about the intrusive, all-consuming, intense world where one is supposed to find one’s place. In Coloured, Stained, Now there’s a narrator with ink on her fingers. She views herself but is also being viewed. She seeks to understand herself in the chaotic present, but is discoloured and stained by her past and present, by family and stares, both others and her own. Which external parts do you have to explore to find your inner self? In the middle of a summer full of lilacs, beer and falling in love, a conversation, in the middle of her own birth. She’s in the middle of all the adhesive, sticky and glittery which makes up the now, in the middle of something coloured and stained.

Fifteen years
Literature and Fiction2022 · 192 pp

Fifteen years

Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth has written a stunning and insightful book about one of the most important events in a human’s life – becoming an adult and growing independent, even when it hurts others. There is a rhythm in Paula’s life – the meals at the table at home, going skiing in the wilderness with hot toddy and icy breath, the summers at the cabin in Østfold, raspberry bushes and cold-water swimming, the visits to grandma on the West Coast – a rhythm which offers her safety and clarity throughout her childhood. Mother, father, sister, and brother in their little house are the most important people in her life. And then there is Karen, her best friend. The calm is shattered the summer that Paula discovers the pile of letters her mother has written to grandma. The life her mother describes in the letters is unrecognisable: It says her sister Elisabet performed well in her exams, while in reality she failed them; it says that Elisabet sung a solo at the Christmas recital, which she did not; and it says that the father has been promoted to the head of his office. Paula is barely mentioned. Her mother’s pretense is a shock to Paula, who is now surrounded by the lies of an adult’s making. How should she relate to her mother? Who can she be in the family now? Paula is on the edge of becoming a teenager, and the world is opening up before her as both a terrible and wonderful place. She doesn’t want to believe in the god her mother pretends she believes in. She doesn’t want to start lying about her life. Vigdis Hjorth once again writes about a young life, like she’s done previously in amongst others the novel Third Person Singular, even if Paula’s life is significantly different from Hulda Kråkefjær’s. The portrayal of Paula’s childhood and youth may also bring your thoughts to the powerful childhood depictions of Tove Ditlevsen and Tove Jansson. We believe this novel will be read with great joy for many decades. A future classic.NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE PRIZE 2022Reviews«... a beautiful coming-of-age novel about existenstial anxiety and the rebellion against conventions.»Dagbladet *****«... this will go straight to the heart to most who has once been 15 years old.»Adresseavisen *****«The language is also unmistakably Hjorthian where it trickles away like a steep stream during the spring thaw.»BT, *****«... a riveting story.»Stavanger Aftenblad, *****«What everyone wants to know, of course, is if this is Hjorth at her best. Yes, I think this is Hjorth at her best.»Aftenposten«When it comes down to it, Vigdis Hjorth knows how to write atmosphere and family relations.»VG«Hjorth is not afraid to appear heartfelt when she's describing the moment where a teenager discovers that the world is not only wonderful, but also difficult.»NRK«... the author is in complete control of the language, the rhythm, the repetitions and iterations and everything that creates energy – in contrast to calmer, lighter sections, especially situations where Paula seeks and communicates with the nature around her.»Dagsavisen«Fifteen years is [Vigdis Hjorth's] most well-written novel yet.»Morgenbladet«Vigdis Hjorth does it again.»Information, Denmark«Fifteen Years in all its deft brevity (188 pages, not a word too much, not a word too little) is simultaneously a fully developed portrait of a girl and an existential novel about finding one's own core. It is all written with a linguistic excess that makes every sentence shine with prosaic care, and on almost every page Vigdis Hjorth trumps through points or formulations that are worth dwelling on.»Weekendavisen, Denmark«Vigdis Hjorth once again succeeds at depicting existential issues so that it hurts, but with a characteristic humor that characterizes the authorship.» Litteratursiden, Denmark«On the list of recommended books that dig and gnaw at the eternally fascinating mind of a young girl, one can safely write Vigdis Hjorth's novel about Paula.»Politiken, Denmark«... Vigdis Hjort's gaze at the family as an institution is exactly as penetrating as it usually is, and she mercilessly peels away all the notions and narratives that we falsely and painstakinglybuild around us.»Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmark«The trump card of the novel is that Vigdis Hjorth has made her protagonist extremely reflective about her positioning in the family landscape. Along the way, she fights a silent struggle for liberation to become an independent young woman through gifted musings and considerations. It is written so convincingly that as a reader I was completely absorbed by the reality that unfolds inside the mind of a very young woman.»Berlingske, Denmark «Vigdis Hjorth writes with an unusual nerve and intensity.»Dagens Nyheter, Sweden «SO INTENSELY mundane is life in the first thirty pages of the novel that it is barely possible to breathe»ETC, Sweden «Vigdis Hjorth's new novel Fifteen Years may be one of her strongest»FOKUS, Sweden «Masterly!»Norrländska Socialdemokraten, Sweden «It's so cleverly done. Vigdis Hjorth has never been better than she is in Fifteen Years.» Barometern, Sweden

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Ebbs & Flows
Literature and Fiction2022 · 240 pp

Ebbs & Flows

Kristian S. Hæggernes

To ten-year-old Daniel the summer holidays at the family’s cabin by the sea is one of the highlights of the year. There he can safely play with his Lego without other children making fun of him, and he gets to spend a lot of time with his grandpa, who he hasn’t seen much this year since his grandpa has been very ill. His big sister and cousins are sleeping in a tent in the garden. They’re preoccupied with the handsome boy at the gas station and live in a different world from Daniel, a world he isn’t very curious about anyway. He’s more interested in his Lego-people, who have travelled from the castle they live in in his room, to explore the forest around the cabin. But this summer there are boys around his own age in the neighbouring cabin. And a little girl is stranded on a reef and must be rescued. Daniel prefers being on the water over being in the water. But why does his mother yell at his grandpa when he’s going for a swim? And is Daniel allowed to adopt the cat a woman asks if he wants? Ebbs & Flows is a novel about the possibilities and limitations of childhood, and about the incipient realisation that it can’t last forever.

From now on it's going to be easier
Literature and Fiction2022 · 128 pp

From now on it's going to be easier

Hilde Stålskjær Osen

"Instant Realism" Lars Saabye Christensen called the style of Hilde Stålkjær Osen when she received his debut prize for the novel We just Drive, and Then We See. In her new collection of short stories, we meet characters in the middle of crisis. Life might have gotten stuck on a bad track, they might be looking for different ways out, and sometimes they might see a little hope too; From now on it´s going to be easier. A woman is longing for the person she loves but might not get. Another has ended up in an unknown place longing to go home. A man is trying as best he can to understand why his wife left him. A mother has had her child taken away from her, but she is still feeling her way for it in her empty apartment. The short stories in From now on it´s going to be easier are written in a straight forward and everyday like language where what is written between the lines are just as important as what is actually written in the text.

Giæver and Iunker
Literature and Fiction2022 · 160 pp

Giæver and Iunker

Erlend Loe

Hey! Look at me when I’m talking! Are you writing this down? Are you ready? Are you recording? I’d like you to record and take notes at the same time. That way you’ll get everything. What isn’t said disappears. What is said disappears too, it just takes longer. Okay? Are you ready? Good. I'm not telling you this for fun, I'm doing it for you, and for all Giævers be they alive, dead or yet to be born. You’re not writing! Pen to paper! There you go. Now I’ll begin. My name is Giæver. The valley where the Giævers live is shared with the Iunker-family who live on the neighbouring farm. But they are not very neighnourly, as the two families have been in a conflict for over eight hundred years. Old-Giæver is approaching the end of his life and spends his last days on earth informing Young-Giæver about their family history, about practical things like the mud stick, the pick-up, suet cakes, pillows, ships, women and obviously the conflict with the Iunker-family. Giæver doesn’t want to leave this life without ensuring customs and practices, knowledge, life wisdom and most importantly the hatred towards the Iunkers is continued by the next generation. Erlend Loe is back in tip-top shape with his peculiar humour and sharp observations. Written like a monologue delivered by Old-Giæver, this is a gem of a book. «Giæver and Iunker is a riot of a tall tale.»BERGENS TIDENE, five/six stars «You're guaranteed a laughing fit from this, here we have Erlend Loe just as we like him.»RANDABERG 24, five/six stars «... verbally witty and satirical. [...] Loe is still a punner of rank.»ADRESSEAVISEN

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Overgrow
Literature and Fiction2022 · 96 pp

Overgrow

Atle Håland

WINNER OF SØRLANDETS (SOUTHERN NORWAY'S) LITERATURE PRIZEOvergrow is a coming-of-age story about seeing one self in nature, about being othered from the people and the village one grows up in. It is a novel about being in love and about desire. Desire strengthens us, but it also makes us vulnerable, and shows us clearly that we are but a tiny piece in the big system we call nature. «Håland has previously written three poetry collections. This is his first novel. But it's a novel with much poetry. And much nature. Life's impermanence, nature's decay, the sea's infinity, all of this makes the book beautiful, despite the ugly. He writes directly, sensually, closely. This book gives me associations to the French author comet Eduard Louis.» FÆDRELANDSVENNEN, fiv/six stars «In both the dialogues and the descriptions, Håland writes with impressive credibility and experience, and the short form gives the story efficiency and dramatic drive.»MORGENBLADET «He possesses a poetic undertone in his language that amazes and fascinates the reader. At times the novel is like a piece of nature poetry. It's reminiscent of Tarjei Vesaas.» JURY OF SØRLANDETS LITERATURE PRIZE

Him, solo
Literature and Fiction2022 · 256 pp

Him, solo

Robin Van de Walle

«I am rootless, homeless, restless, loveless» Him, solo starts as a classic breakup-novel. Robin is 26 years old and has been left by the man he thought was the one. The heartbreak leads to a journey of discovery unlike most; a literary exploration of one’s own life and background, and about being a queer foreigner in Norway. The reader is brought to Robin’s childhood and upbringing in Belgium, through his years of studying and relationships in Sweden and Norway, to the present Bergen where lockdown, isolation and pandemic restrictions enhance the emptiness and loneliness following the breakup. First and foremost, Him, solo is about the great loneliness. The loneliness you can feel even when you’re surrounded by others. A remarkable debut novel which explores highs and lows; you’ve got Star Wars and Titanic, outer space and the seabed, philosophy of language and Grindr-sex.

Secret lives
Literature and Fiction2022 · 608 pp

Secret lives

Odd Klippenvåg

Odd Klippenvåg is one of Norway's most important writers of the short story. His first collection, No phoenix, was first published in 1979. In many ways is the Phoenix, this mystical bird that raises from its own ashes, a good metaphor for Klippenvågs short story authorship: The genre is the same and some themes are recurring, but the short stories are new and fresh, without giving the feeling of having read them before—rather the contrary. Secret lives is a collection of Klippenvåg’s very best short stories thus far.