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What's with mother?
Literature and Fiction2017 · 128 pp

What's with mother?

Vigdis Hjorth

Through this unusually well-written portrait, which is both heart-wrenching and provocative, we meet the teenager Marit, who is continuously being asked, "What kind of mother do you have anyway?" This is exactly the question she keeps asking herself.“Vigdis Hjorth has written a challenging, provoking, ruthlessly revealing, brave and beautiful book about an alcoholic mother and her teenage daughter. (…) It is a novel full of insight that Hjorth has written. It is at the same time damned provoking and heartbreakingly gripping. (…) “What´s with mother?” is a book that stays with you after you put it down. It challenges, creates discomfort and it still brings joy.” DAGSAVISEN

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I happened to suddenly stop thinking about you
Literature and Fiction2017 · 96 pp

I happened to suddenly stop thinking about you

Fredrik Hagen

Life is the space in-between. Everyone knows that. A space between nothing and nothing. And in this room exists everything - and nothing. Meaning: Life in life and death in life, and: Life in death and death in death. We are people, more or less normal, that sometimes, like this time, are allowed to furnish a poetry collection. People that might be sick, maybe even dying soon, definietly one day. People that enjoy each others company for a while, and then don´t enjoy, and then are not together anymore. We venture between everything and nothing. And we carry these momentums all the time. We recognize it in the faces of strangers. In everyday repetition. In horrid episodes. Like a fatal car crash. Like one of the hubs in Fredrik Hagens debut collection. A young woman looses her life . All of a sudden. And the young man, around the same age as the woman, can feel the happening shooting out in all directions - childhood, family, job-, private- and social life. He can feel all tings participation in everything. Meaning nothing. you too will diebut before that you will besomeone that people think aboutand sometimes lie with I happened to suddenly stop thinking about you (Jeg kom plutselig til å slutte å tenke på deg) is a sore and vulnerable collection that show how hard it can be to take care of one self, not least those sides of us that is depending on others.

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The Hunter's Doll
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2017 · 240 pp

The Hunter's Doll

Gert Nygårdshaug

A sensational archaeological discovery has been made in a remote mountain valley in Nord-Østerdal: two so-called bog bodies have been unearthed, along with several artifacts bearing strange inscriptions. Wine connoisseur and deciphering expert Fredric Drum is called in and suddenly finds himself at the center of mysterious events. Suspense builds around the appearance of an ancient hunter's amulet: a doll. Gert Nygårdshaug draws the reader into a world where trout fishing, magnificent nature, archaeology, and myths merge into a highly topical drama.

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Lightyears
Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

Lightyears

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm

Sunstorms have made the earth uninhabitable. Humanity's last hope, 24 selected passengers in cryo chambers and with erased memories, are on their way to the closest habitable planet – 543 years away. Norway, the only conscious passenger on board, does their duties, getting the best out of its watch and overlooking the strange banging sounds from the air conditioner. Lightyears is a sad, beautiful and exciting journey back in time and space.Didrik Morits Hallstrøm writes Science Fiction that will give you chills. The depictions of the lonely life aboard the space ship «Vita» is written in detail and intensity, instantly gripping the reader. This is a story that could not have been told in any other perspective. Through short and compact narratives the reader is included in the life and routines of «Vita». The space ship, dead, empty and awful, is brought to life in an impressive way through the writing of Hallstrøm. This is a book that you can pick up without regret.AFTENPOSTENWorrying and thought provoking.I do not see the point to decide what this novel is actually about. I like that I for days after I end reading it still walk around thinking about what the book is trying to tell me, and then come up with new things.DAG OG TID Lightyears is this years best interstellar small town novel. And that is no small achievement. VG

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Mulysses
Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

Mulysses

Øyvind Torseter

Mule Boy goes to sea. And his travels go about as well as they do for many other boys on their first journey: poverty forces him on a dangerous trip with an eccentric adventurer who is searching for the eye of a sea monster. We follow Mule Boy's dangerous journey through the comic book format. We take part in the emotional gusts he undergoes – far from home, under an unpredictable captain and dealing with the strong feelings for a blind passenger that gradually start to appear.

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If only
Literature and Fiction2017 · 320 pp

If only

Vigdis Hjorth

The playwright Ida Heier has met the love of her life: the professor Arnold Busk, who is ten years her senior. Both are married and have children. For several years she pines for him to let go of his family for her. But when he does their relationship moves toward the extreme, an obsession that borders on madness… «A great, tragic romance novel that hits the reader like a high-speed train.»DAGBLADET «With the novel If only Hjorth steps up a division. It is written with the blood of her heart, and might be her best novel.»VG «By the end of If Only, Hjorth reworks that old aphorism: unhappy stories are all alike. It’s the ones that eke out a kind of happiness that set themselves apart. Hjorth emerges once again, in this novel, as not only a chronicler of the bruised and bloody, but their champion, an author who grants her characters the power to author their own stories themselves.»Full Stop (US) «An absorbing study of inner turmoil ... gripping.»Guardian «Addictive ... The beauty of If Only is in the way Hjorth underscores how often love and suffering are bedmates.»Susie Mesure, Financial Times «Cult author Vigdis Hjorth’s most important novel ... If Only exposes the tragedy of both longing for and attaining one’s love object.»Mia Levitin, Monocle «Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers.»Sheila Heti «A love affair consumes a Norwegian woman's life in Hjorth's breathtaking latest ... Hjorth's narration is both irresistible and exhausting, a headlong rush that describes and enacts Ida's feelings as she careens between love and hate for a man she knows isn't "worth the sacrifice." Like Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, Ida has occasional flashes that she's acting irrationally, and Hjorth evokes the agony of her protagonist's self-entrapment to a devastating degree. It's an enthralling tale of passion gone to rot.»starred review, Publishers Weekly «Hjorth, the Norwegian novelist behind 2022’s Is Mother Dead, painstakingly chronicles a 30-year-old married woman’s all-consuming and volatile romance with a married man, which blurs the lines between passion and love.»Sophia Stewart, The Millions «The Norwegian author of Long Live the Post Horn! and Will and Testament has formed a small but formidable cult following in the US, and If Only should only grow their army. If Only starts off with enigmatic and addictive words of love and death that call to mind our favorite doomed affairs-painful and poetic, cursed and necessary, we must go back in time to understand how our heroine found herself on the brink, caught between passion and ruin.»James Folta, Lit Hub; Most Anticipated Books of 2024 «Feverish and intoxicating, If Only is a novel about the depths of a life-altering devotion and the connections between love, creativity, and self-making.»Foreword Reviews «Who are we without passionate love, and do we need heartbreak to truly know ourselves? If Only chronicles one woman’s questions of life, love and existence during a torrid love affair.»B&N Reads «Everything here that sets my teeth on edge – the claustrophobia and repetition, the endless torture the lovers put each other through – is exactly what makes Hjorth’s novel so remarkably, and horrifyingly, accomplished.»Lucy Scholes, Telegraph «Hjorth’s portrait of her heroine’s madness nearly always teeters towards comedy, which is one reason the book, though depicting suffering and shame, is such a pleasure to read.»Stuart Jeffries, Observer «In form and function, If Only paints a vivid portrait of desperation ... And for what? For love? For lust? For nothing? The question is not answered. It’s simply two lives laid out for ultimate destruction.»Frank Valish, Under the Radar

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The Eyes of Rigel
Literature and Fiction2017 · 240 pp

The Eyes of Rigel

Roy Jacobsen

The Eyes of Rigel is the third book in the Barrøy trilogy. A strong, epic novel about a country and a people after a great war. In this moving story about a woman that does what everyone tells her not to, Ingrid Barrøy ventures out on a hazardous quest to find the young Russian Alexander, a man she had a love affair with and who is the father of her child.-- ‘Gripping road movie about a mother and child in search of a Russian refugee.’ ‘(...) few authors other than Roy Jacobsen can weave together the local, the national and the global; the shadows of the past and our conflict-ridden world in the here and now.’ Stavanger Aftenblad 6/6 ‘When we read The Eyes of Rigel (and the two other books), we hear the language of northern Norway. And it isn’t just in the dialogue either. The depictions of the environment transport you to that part of the country even when the reality is described in perfectly standard Norwegian. This is the work of a master. (…) Roy Jacobsen has done it again. It is melancholy, it is beautiful, it is funny and it is extremely good. If this is the end of Ingrid Barrøy’s story, then it’s a worthy ending.’ Book365 6/6 An unusually beautiful voyage ‘The third book in Roy Jacobsen’s novel cycle about Ingrid Barrøy is a beautiful, poetic and sometimes brutal story. (…) The whole of this great little novel is a vibrant portrayal of life after war, life after catastrophe, life after love. (…) Read it yourself, this extraordinarily beautiful voyage from sea to forest, inland and back, among people with internal and external scars, in a war for peace.’ VG 6/6 ‘Roy Jacobsen takes factual, known events as his starting point, then goes on to broaden the horizon, step by step, until we are left with truths about the human condition, mortality and vulnerability.’ Klassekampen Ingrid’s Wonderful Adventure ‘Jacobsen’s images of a society undergoing rapid development are as sharp and finely drawn as his glimpses of nature, forest, birdsong and the absence of the sea – in what also becomes a Wonderful Adventure of Ingrid Barrøy. (…) This book is a high point.’ NRK

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It´s time
Literature and Fiction2017 · 96 pp

It´s time

Knut Ødegård

In his fiftieth year as a poet, Knut Ødegård is more vital than ever. This years collection shows us a poet painting bold pictures with his words, unafraid to enter the political scene of our days. The poets span from childhood to old age, from Molde to the mother fleeing Syria with her child, in the same way Mary fled with Jesus.

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Invisible Hands
Literature and Fiction2017 · 264 pp

Invisible Hands

Stig Sæterbakken

Police Inspector Kristian Wold has been assigned the year-old, unsolved case of a missing person. There is no mistaking the message from his superiors: this is to be the last ditch attempt in finding the person before the case is dropped. Nonetheless, Kristian's conscience forces him to agree to meet Inger Danielsen, the mother of the 14-year-old girl who has disappeared. It is to be a meeting that will have unexpected consequences for them both. While Kristian feels committed to continuing an investigation that has so far proved fruitless, an exciting intimacy is also developing between him and the mother. Inevitably, and against all the odds, the two are drawn to each other, with an unpleasant outcome in store. 'In a good, old-fashioned way Usynlige hender grips you from page one. It is a novel you read fast, and which you do not want to put down.'AFTENPOSTEN 'Stig Sæterbakken writes disturbingly well about desire, the crossing of moral boundaries and people you absolutely do not want to resemble.'DAGSAVISEN 'Usynlige hender is a very strong novel, written in a precise and economic language where each and every word has meaning and weight, where there are hardly any clichés, and where merciless passion takes care of the drive.'DAGBLADET 'The strength in Sæterbakken’s authorship lies in his ability to look deep. Deep into human inner life, history, hopes, dreams, darkness and longing.'MORGENBLADET ´A cruel stylist. Stig Sæterbakken shows the reader what morality really is. (...)He is extremely exact in his observations of our weak sides, the moments when our moral ideals and our moral behavior fall apart.'DAGENS NYHETER, Sweden 'In a chopped, precise language Sæterbakken dramatizes the entire relational-psychological circuit of idealizing, polarizing and evil integration. Less than a hardboiled, black detective story Usynlige hender is a novel which tests our ability to understand and forgive, while at the same time pushing the reader farther and farther out on morally boggy ground.'SVENSKA DAGBLADET, Sweden

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A View to Paradise
Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

A View to Paradise

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

A book about loneliness. Tender, and very, very funny. Elling is 32 years old and lives in the apartment that he shared with his mother until her death. He passes the time by documenting the lives of his neighbours through a telescope, while nurturing his love to prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. A condition he treats by collecting pictures of the prime minster - the woman who represents the only thing safe in an otherwise chaotic environment. Reviews: “This is a dense, meticulously well constructed, muted and shimmeringly sad novel.” ARBEIDERBLADET “Laughter and contemplation are two important ingredients in our experience of reading Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s latest novel… What captivates most is the experience of a person with an enormous capacity for observation and a teeming wealth of associations, but who lives locked into utter solitude, both social and mental. A rich book written in smooth and supple conservative Norwegian. A new and exciting Ingvar Ambjørnsen.” AFTENPOSTEN “Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s book – so unlike his earlier novels – may be read as a psychological study of a lonely, stunted life, and of an attempt to write one’s way out of solitude… Ingvar Ambjørnsen has gazed deep into a special psyche, offering a convincing portrayal of a sorrowful fate, an intractable solitude.” BERGENS TIDENDE Ambjørnsen hits the bullseye “This time Ambjørnsen has written an insanely funny and thoroughly serious novel. With A view of paradise, Ambjørnsen has totally remade himself in both language and content. He opens with a hint of Camus and continues with a glimmer of Solstad. This is a joyous book.” VG

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In Deep Water
UpLit / Mystery and Crime2017 · 144 pp · Age 6 - 12

In Deep Water

Arne Svingen

The world's most dangerous gang is tougher than ever. This time, they've built the biggest slingshot ever using Killer's grandfather's suspenders. They must cure Vampire Rosa of the most unpleasant disease. The quartet become sumo wrestlers and find a dead man in the Evil Forest. The gang proves what true friendship is, which gets them into deep, deep water... The Verdens farligste gjeng-books contain short, wild and very funny stories about everything that can happen when the adults aren't paying attention.

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and when there is light, it will be amazing
Literature and Fiction2017 · 64 pp

and when there is light, it will be amazing

Kristin Berget

In earlier works, Berget has explored the individual´s experience of not settling in the categories appointed to them. In this new collection we are invited into an intimit collective, placed in unstable landscapes of fields and oceans, seasons shifting. Human life is small and vulnerable. The world is areas of conflict, or the view from the lighthouse. And like always with this poet, a fire is lit.

Rights soldSold to 3 territories