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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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Earth
Literature and Fiction2017 · 288 pp

Earth

Kjersti Kollbotn

When Halvor, oldest son and heir, becomes the oldest man on the farm, he has to marry the smallholding woman Regine. Under scarce conditions, the human spirit is put to the test. Son Skjalg must deal with the consequences of Halvor's choices. The book is about two families, two farms. Kollbotn writes a serious drama that stretches across generations. It is powerful and engaging. Kollbotn writes with uncommon courage and honesty.

Maybe It Helps
Literature and Fiction2017 · 672 pp

Maybe It Helps

Nils-Øivind Haagensen

Nils-Øivind Haagensen is likely today's most popular poet of his generation in Norway. He is compared to the likes of Sweden's Göran Sonnevi, Chile's Pablo Neruda and America's Allen Ginsburg. After two critically acclaimed collections, his authorship gained momentum with the first of what has since been called Adressebøkene. For a while, he was a veritable word machine for newspapers and delivered texts that lay within – but also crossed the borders of – most genres. He was awarded the Sult Prize and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. When he gives readings, the venue is normally full to capacity. At Cappelen Damm, he published books such as Haruki og jeg, which was published in 2010. Maybe it helps assembles all the poetry Haagensen has published with Cappelen Damm from 1998 to 2010 – as well as a good deal of extra material from this period. Thus, we get a thick and beautiful book of hundreds of pages, equipped with a foreword by Johan Harstad and an interview with the author. If you wish to translate one of Norway's most important poets, you may want to start here, with Nils-Øivind Haagensen.

Come and Get Me
Literature and Fiction2017 · 120 pp

Come and Get Me

Kjersti Wøien Håland

You are waiting to be picked up. I do not know of what or who, but you know. From mental basements and literal attics. I see you all the time, waiting. In the City where I live, the waiting City. You can tell by the cranes. The whole world is waiting, even when it is racing, even when it is spinning around it self. Waiting for a change, a revolution, a collapse. January is waiting fro February. The Day is caught up by the Night. Words waiting fro eyes. Poems waiting to be read.

A bit like that song
Literature and Fiction2017 · 120 pp

A bit like that song

Håvard J. Nilsen

Håvard J. Nilsens debut A bit like that song orbits around a group of students, and within the group: a couple. Book titles, authors, political and historical references bounce from wall to wall inside the student collective, and the poems make it obvious how we once understood and explained our young lives through new knowledge and learning. We all do that, don´t we? The way a new film, book, song and so on would be able to catch the essence of us, finally understanding it, and how an obscure theoretic would make the world understandable for us for a couple of days, maybe a week. Before something new, even more obscure, would push us in a new direction. We who watched the towers fall and the tanks roll into Bagdad and "mission accomplished" going from Netscape to Chrome and from Wimp to iTunes and from Clinton to Bush & Bin Laden who heard the first Coldplay record in a coffee-shop in Trondheim and discovered Pineapple Thief by coincidence while Mosjøen laid grey and sad outside Håvard J. Nilsen writes poems about soon to be parted people in soon to be vacated apartments. Poems about the great self-sufficient world that wraps up tiny human lives, where everything is shared, striking from Bagdad to Mosjøen with the greatest obviousness, trying, like all grown up students do, to capture that old feeling that anything is possible, just one last time. A bit like that song that we would listen to all night. Remember?

The Lofoten Wall
Literature and Fiction2017 · 320 pp

The Lofoten Wall

Stig Aasvik

The narrator of this novel is sitting trapped in a job-seeking course through NAV, the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration. Among all the other job seekers, he lets his thoughts wander here and there in violent thrusts back and forth in time. Lofotveggen is a fragmented, intense and meandering insider's tale from within Stig Aasvik's mind; events past and present are intertwined in one long stream of consciousness; his childhood, his mother's sudden and untimely death, travels to his father's hometown in Lofoten, family life, work, everyday events, events great and small, wounds great and small, difficult and painful experiences. Everything pours out, is turned inside out and enlarged. This is an ambitious story, an inner struggle, a complex, musical, dark, dreamy and lyrical tale about being a human being – here and now."He writes the way a meticulous and sensitive Knaugård might do, merciless but carefully and tender about his close ones. The text grows in a well-groomed and rich inner language."STAVANGER AFTENBLAD "The Lofoten Wall is sweet. The language is radient. The transitions from thought to thought come naturally. Not for a moment do we miss an external narrative." ADRESSEAVISEN

The Lotus Eaters
Literature and Fiction2017 · 176 pp

The Lotus Eaters

Kristian Klausen

The Lotus Eaters is a book about how consciousness enters a dialogue with the arts. The narrator poses the existential question: “Why was I born?” before moving through a series of works that have had meaning for him. The absurd drawings of Gary Larson, Jackson Pollock's paintings, Mickey Rourke's role in Rumble Fish, a sentence from Ulysses. The Lotus Eaters is a narratively ambitious and playful collection of short stories.

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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Between Dream and Presence
Literature and Fiction2017 · 288 pp

Between Dream and Presence

Jan Jakob Tønseth / Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen

Jan Jakob Tønseth made his debut in the 70´s - a liberatingly apolitical voice in a time when politics ruled - also in the domain of poetry. He is hard to place, a traditionalist on the threshold to modernism, a central lyrisist with the tendancy of surrealist rethorics. In 2017 he turns 70 years old, and we celebrate by publishing his collected poetry. In the afterword, Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen gives us a presentation of the poet and his works.

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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