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My Friend, Alice
Mystery and Crime2024 · 320 pp

My Friend, Alice

Mally Marlene

Jessie and Alice have been inseparable for as long as they can remember, sharing a consuming interest in True Crime cases.When Alice becomes obsessed with an unsolved disappearance case from the 90s – The Sleeping Baby Case – Jessie finds that her friendship with Alice becomes more and more threatening. Alice is very dominant, and Jessie finds it challenging to maintain a normal life. Can Alice be trusted and is she the friend Jessie thinks she is? My Friend Alice is a psychological thriller exploring disturbed human minds and the fatal consequences of them. The storytelling is visual and captivating, and it will for sure make you question yourself along the way. The pieces of the puzzle in this psychological thriller fits perfectly together in the end.5/6 stars - Adresseavisa In the run-of-the-mill spring of Norwegian crime fiction, Mally Marlene emerges as a breath of fresh air, infused with a mix of lewd sexuality and Freudian terror. This psychological thriller is a demonstration of power. 6/6 stars – NRK I won’t be surprised if this novel, in a revised form, becomes the basis for a movie or a TV series.Stavanger Aftenblad

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Landing
Literature and Fiction2024 · 176 pp

Landing

Aksel Selmer

Ottar Arne Andersen, failed poet and author of mediocre advertising texts, recently widowed and retired, has finally worked up the courage to move back to his hometown. For more than forty years he has longed to return home to the winter and ideal skiing conditions. But when he is sitting with his boxes of books in the house he has bought, he realises it was maybe something else he longed for, something he is struggling to get back. Landing is a cheerful and melancholic story about coming home and then trying to remember what it was that what it was that you left and why you left it. It is also a tale of soaring over the landscape of your childhood and making a good Telemark landing on your skis.

The Most Prominent Thomas Mann-expert in Norway
Literature and Fiction2024 · 208 pp

The Most Prominent Thomas Mann-expert in Norway

Fredrik Lilleby

Fredrik Lilleby’s novel The Most Prominent Thomas Mann Expert in Norway is a novel about sexual and romantic relationships, the possibilities and limitations of literature, lives, lived and unlived, desire and gratification, transgression and regret. Helge Kaspersen is the chief district judge at Fløtterud court, well into his fifties and married to Randi. Thomas Mann has been his favourite author his whole adult life, largely due to Mann’s supressed homosexuality, desires that Helge Kaspersen has realised he shares. He is looking forward to a two-month sabbatical from his position as district judge, during which time he plans to write a 150-to-200-page book about Thomas Mann. To also try to “do something about” his own homoerotic desires, he creates a profile on the dating app Grindr and eventually meets someone he likes. The sabbatical doesn’t turn out quite like he had envisioned.

Norwegian love
Literature and Fiction2024 · 128 pp

Norwegian love

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

Was Brynjulf a child sold across borders? Can he still be glad he was bought by someone in Norway? All he wants is to be part of the country where he grew up, to acknowledge the painful, but also see what's beautiful. At the time when White, Norwegian man came out, a story broke that there had been problematic aspects to the adoption industry. This shook the self-image and identity of many adopted people, including Brynjulf Jung Tjønn. Even though you are born in another country and have dark skin colour, you still just want to belong. To be part of the Norwegian. Who has Brynjulf been? Who will he be or become? What does it mean to be Norwegian? "(...) poems that vibrate with quiet, understated tension.”Marius AspVG, Five/six stars “He is often satirical and has an undeniable talent for pinpoint phrasing.”Espen GrønlieDagbladet, Five/six stars “… a poetic commentary on the ongoing news landscape.”Gro Jørstad NilsenBergens Tidende, Five/six stars “Brynjulf Jung Tjønn finds a finely tuned balance between the despair of identity and reconciliation.”Ingunn ØklandAftenposten “Brynjulf Jung Tjønn’s new poetry collection plays on ‘Norwegian’ as a hallmark of identity, values, and tradition, while also capturing the experience of alienation, racism, and the loss of self.”Sigrid Elise StrømmenVårt Land

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Swoosh!
Literature and Fiction2024 · 272 pp

Swoosh!

Morten Langeland

In November 1996, the workers of coalmine 3 at Svalbard were told that operations were being suspended. The workers put down their tools and left the mine in the middle of their shift. Trygve became an unemployed sole provider for his daughter, Mariane. For years, Mariane has lived a successful and hectic life as a trend analyst. The international lifestyle brands have sky-high expectations, which Mariane rarely fails to exceed. But when a pitch meeting for Nike suddenly goes awry, Mariane opts for a self-imposed break. As she attempts to analyze her new situation while licking her wounds, an important phone call knocks her further out of balance. From multinational negotiations on the 27th floor in Tokyo office buildings, to hard manual labor in Coal Mine 3 on Svalbard: Swoosh! is a journey between generations, towards a new understanding of one’s own identity. Praise for Swoosh! Existentially curious about parenthood and identity "Through Mariane and Trygve, the novel explores the enormous social changed that have happened over just two measly generations, with the parallel, disquieting changes of our planet as its framework. (…) an existentially curious exploration of estrangement and love across two generations, in a rapidly changing world." MORGENBLADET Praise for Morten Langeland Masterly by Morten Langeland After 260 pages of dense and intense text with the unmistakable tinge of Morten Langeland’s playful approach to language and matter, and with several narrative threads weaved together sort of like a complicated fugue by Bach, I’m not only convinced of the novel’s greatness. I’m equally moved, touched and happy to have partaken in this work of art. This book will stay with me for a long time. FÆDRELANDSVENNEN Between spiritus and spiritus mundi Morten Langeland writes contemporary-cultural look-and-find-books one definitely shouldn’t miss. (…) With his publications these last four years, Morten Langeland has become a completely unique and very significant writer. MORGENBLADET

If you were human
Literature and Fiction2024 · 224 pp

If you were human

Sunniva M. Roligheten / Daniel A. Wilondja

a sorrow and a worry, a wave on Facebook and a question as to whether it was perhaps more painful than good to know you. She is a student working on a project on the conditions in Congolese mines. He works in just such a mine. One summer, he comes to Norway in connection with the project. They become friends without speaking the same language, through an interpreter. He returns home, telling her through Google Translate about sleeping in the mine, about people dying in the mine, about his strong desire to be educated. She has a good idea: if they write a book together, he’ll get money for an education, and she’ll help him get a place on a programme of study in Norway. It becomes much more difficult and painful than they could have anticipated. This novel has a very unusual format, written by Sunniva M. Roligheten and Daniel Akilimali Wilondja, in Norwegian, French and Swahili, a lot of it with help from Google Translate. The book is political, poetic, funny and very sad.

The Trophy Room
Literature and Fiction2024 · 224 pp

The Trophy Room

Lars Saabye Christensen

Ion Pauker is the son of a master glassmaker in a small village. His journey through life coincides with the emergence of the new regime. Like his peers, Ion Pauker is drawn to what is new. He proves to be adaptable and ends up in the People's Palace, responsible for the Omagiu room - the place where all official medals and orders are kept. There are many trophies to look after, and strict guidelines for which medals to display at different occasions. But there will come a time when the medals and their supervisor cease to serve a purpose. The Trophy Room takes place in a bizarre regime of the past. The novel also serves as a mirror being held up to our world of today, with its authoritarian tendencies and desire for strong leaders. Under such a regime, what happens to people’s humanity? What happens to citizens when their minds are controlled, and "truth" is nothing but a means to keep that control? Where does one draw the line between survival and treason? And under these contidions, it even possible to be a good person? «The Trophy Room is both an eerie portrait of the autoritarian's mentality, and a refreshing renewal of a long and important authorship.»VG, five/six stars «The book has obvious hints to Franz Kafka»Dag og Natt «... a touching and uncomfortable portrait of a person in a dictatorship's violence.»Dagsavisen «Lars Saabye Christensen surprises and impresses – again.»Nettavisen «Lars Saabye Christensen's take on 1984—a George Orwellian dystopia carried by an atmosphere somewhere between The Handmaid's Tale and South Korea's Squid Game.(...) It is chilling! (...) Saabye revels in an eeriness that mirrors our own rampant newspeak.»Politiken "The Tropy Room is not a comfortable novel, but it is sharp. It works best as a sort of political fable about power, obedience, and moral decay. It is a book that does not seek so much to entertain as to unsettle—and to make the reader consider where the line is drawn between adapting and giving up."Kulturkappellet

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The Orangery
Literature and Fiction2024 · 240 pp

The Orangery

Gro Dahle

The Orangery is a science fiction drama about the relationship between man and machines, skewed power dynamics, and a strange new world. Nesle wakes abruptly after fifteen years of cryosleep on a spaceship called the Orangery. She won’t survive another sleep induction and is therefore denied a place on the ship headed for her home planet. Nesle is instead sent to explore a planet hoped to be habitable. She is the only human on the mission, and must go, despite trying to back out of it. Nesle is given the embot Poppel for support. Embots can supposedly do everything a human can, be a collaborator, friend, servant, confidant and lover. A strange relationship develops between Nesle and the embot. Is the embot a kind of slave? Can they be equals? Is the embot programmed for lifelong loyalty, or is there something else there? The pair reach a lush and hot planet. After landing, something happens to the embot that changes its priorities. Nesle is all alone. Could the embot have found other creatures or machines there?

Poses
Literature and Fiction2024 · 256 pp

Poses

Heidi Sævareid

Sunniva travels from Norway to the United States to reunite with Michael and Kelly, two friends from her time spent in a yoga community during the 2010s. One decade later, much has changed. Both in society and in their three lives. A road trip from San Francisco to Portland outlines the story of their shared friendship: a journey backwards in time, to the how and when of their first meeting, to what later happened between them, and the things they either confronted or left unsaid in the past. Their years spent at a yoga school, as students of the charismatic and boundless teacher Jasper, has left them all affected and changed. Yet each of them remembers the experience very differently. Poses delves into questions surrounding the trauma and lasting effects of physical and psychological violations. It draws inspiration from recent revelations about well-known yoga gurus and the communities surrounding them, such as Bikram and Ashtanga. Importantly, the novel also explores the group dynamics that arise in spiritual communities with strong, charismatic leaders - and within friendships that are not quite what they once were. ... Poses brings something new to the last years’ elegant and intelligent first-person narratives on trauma. MORGENBLADET Poses by Heidi Sævareid sees right through the social masks [we wear] in an almost provocatively realistic manner. … Sævareid effectively describes how and why yoga communities are particularly susceptible to systematic sexual abuse … But Sævareid also depicts how the language and worldview of yoga can calcify in the body and mind. ... When things get hard, [the three friends] keep searching for knots and blocks in their own muscles, rather than in the expressions and emotions of their friends’ faces. … They haven’t just been manipulated and abused by Jasper. The years in his practice have also stripped them of a language where they can find each other, outside of his worldview. AFTENPOSTEN Sævareid is skilled at describing the external landscape and the inner dynamics of friendship. (...) Sævareid's sensitive treatment of unhealthy body control is masterful. The descriptions of pain and resistance in the body are palpable. (...) As a reader familiar with yoga postures and Sanskrit terms, I appreciate how concrete Sævareid is in these depictions. At the same time, she takes care of readers without the same background with her steady and sensual approach to language. Describing bodily movements and postures in writing is indeed not an easy task. VÅRT LAND

The time of the roses
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 352 pp

The time of the roses

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

Alise leaves Sommersholm in dishonour, after being accused of theft. But where can she go? Her father is dead, Birk has forsaken her, and she is pregnant. Soon the pregnancy will begin to show, and she won't be able to hide it any longer. Margerete is finally with Axel, but she is still struggling to be accepted by the rest of his family. She stumbles upon a key, which unlocks an old mystery. But perhaps it's for the better that the mystery stays unsolved? Rose, still in Denmark, is trying to find a way for the charges against Torkel to be dropped. She fears that if he's convicted, he will be hanged. Hugo offers her a deal — if she marries him, he will withdraw the accusation against Torkel. It's an impossible choice for Rose to make. The Time of the Roses is the final volume in the Sommersholm series.

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Sanders
Literature and Fiction2024 · 88 pp

Sanders

Tor Åge Bringsværd

There’s a hollow walnut tree in a forest and in that tree, under a sign that says Sanders, lives a bear. His name is Winnie the Pooh. This story isn’t about him, however, but about Sanders, the name on the sign where he lives. Because who lived in that hollow walnut tree before the bear? Sanders is lost, in more ways than one. He doesn’t remember who he is or where he’s going, only that he began to walk and walked until he came to a forest. Here Sanders meets a variety of talking animals: a chatty wild boar, a timid hare, a dyslexic owl, a tired donkey, and 214 little ones. He gets to know the animals, but soon discovers that both the forest and its inhabitants are in danger. Loud noises frighten the animals and people in yellow coveralls and helmets wander amongst the trees. As the animals prepare to leave, Sanders must figure out who he is and what he can do to save the forest. Tor Åge Bringsværd’s Sanders hasn’t just captured the philosophical wit we remember from the Hundred Acre Wood but breathed new life into the beloved universe. Sanders is a wise and warm novel, intended for adults of all ages who want to learn more about friendship, identity, the vulnerability of nature, the art of seeing the big in the small – and the Hundred Acre Wood, of course.

The Shadow Lawyer
Mystery and Crime2024 · 496 pp

The Shadow Lawyer

Eva J. Stensrud

The Shadow Lawyer is a timely and absorbing crime novel, looking back to Iran during Khomeini’s rise to power in 1979, when a Norwegian embassy councillor in Teheran and his Iranian wife are forced to flee, together with several members of her family. Many years later we encounter the refugees again, in Norway 2017, in and outside of an Iranian diaspora community. They are doctors and lawyers now, some of them live with Norwegian partners, others don’t. When Anna, an Iranian member of the community, is found dead in her home, suspicions are raised against the man she once betrayed. Since the case has ties to Iran, a joint investigation is launched, between Asbjørn Skar, the police superintendent at Kripos, the Norwegian National Criminal Investigating Service and investigator Liv Lindemann from PST, the Norwegian Police Security Agency. But should they really be looking at the past to solve this murder mystery? The Shadow Lawyer is an elegant, ambitious and intelligently told thriller that still manages to be eerily realistic.