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Woman, missing
Literature and Fiction2022 · 176 pp

Woman, missing

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm

Håvard lives a quiet life in a small village on the west coast of Norway. Everything changes when Susanne, a bubbly girl from Oslo, moves into the house next door with her boyfriend. During a few warm summer months Håvard and Susanne begin an intense and secret relationship. A relationship that ends when Susanne suddenly vanishes in the mountain. Håvard doesn’t give up hope about finding her. Susanne must be out there somewhere. No one just disappears. Woman, Missing is something as rare as a tender and poetic suspense novel.

White, Norwegian man
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Literature and Fiction2022 · 96 pp

White, Norwegian man

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

what do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a white, Norwegian man White, Norwegian Man is a touching and important book about a subject many experience every day – namely racism. In this poetry collection the author Brynjulf Jung Tjønn depicts his own experiences of racism. Brynjulf Jung Tjønn was adopted from South Korea to Norway as a child and has always noticed that he looks different, as he puts it himself. With the pandemic – and the awareness around racism and Asian hate – he got new and painful perspectives about his own background and upbringing. White, Norwegian Man is about Norway and the racism many ignore, both the hidden type and the visible one. And not to mention the lonely human who hopes for understanding and finding somewhere to feel at home.WINNER OF THE CRITIC'S AWARD 2022NOMINATED TO THE YOUTH CRITIC'S AWARD 2022NORLA SELECTED TITLE SPRING 2023 ‘What a clenched fist of a book this is! .... Among the most powerful things I’ve read. Everyone should read it.’VG, six/six stars‘A gripping poetry collection about racism. ... a tragic seriousness, often wrapped in witty turns of phrase. ... I would recommend it to any young adult and up, but also for use in anti-racist work and in classrooms.’FRAMTIDA, six/six stars ‘Poetic protest against racism. ... one poem in particular is so compelling and gripping I think it will remain forever in Norwegian literature ... a wistful, vital and necessary contribution to contemporary literature.’AFTENPOSTEN 'Brynjulf Jung Tjønn's poems about the experience of adoption breathes of life.'KLASSEKAMPEN 'It's been a while since I've read something as brutally vulnerable and poetically probing as this. [...] really, when I think about it, these poems should be read by absolutely everyone.'NRK.NO

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My World of Wreck
Literature and Fiction2022 · 100 pp

My World of Wreck

Cornelius Jakhelln

Cornelius Jakhelln’s tenth poetry collection is set in Kristiansand. Or more precisely Cornelius’ Kristiansand, a place and town which slowly slides into memories and at the same time becomes someone else’s Kristiansand. The narrator’s daughter also grows up in Kristiansand, but her town is a different one. With a viewpoint anchored in a distinct and clear point in geography and history, the reader is treated to looking both backwards and forwards. With an open and curious mind, Jakhelln questions what it means to be a human in history, where we come from and where we are going? Or as the subtitle puts it: “Poems migrated from the tree of life”.

Mord og kjærlighet
Mystery and Crime2022 · 384 pp

Mord og kjærlighet

Atle Nielsen

In Love and Murder, we’re introduced to TV2 journalist Ole Bull as he works to push through a controversial report with major implications for a city council member and her family.The case takes a dramatic turn when Bull’s own boss is fatally shot outside his home a few weeks later. Both the police and the media suspect that the unknown killer has several more names on their hit-list. Ole Bull goes into hiding in London, but little does he know that one of the clues in the murder case happens to lead the investigation to the very same place. A race between life and death ensues, in both London and Norway. Love and Murder is a dark thriller about dangerous curiosity and what happens to a journalist’s integrity when constantly put to the test.

Love and Murder
Mystery and Crime2022

Love and Murder

Atle Nielsen

Love and Murder is the title of Atle Nielsen´s second crime novel, with the main character Ole Bull. He is a TV-journalist and have just forced through a controversial news report that might have great implications for a member of the city council and her family. The case takes a dramatic turn a couple of weeks later, as Bull´s boss is shot and killed outside his home. The police, with the aggressive - but skilled - Ingemunn Fenne leading them, understand that the murder is linked to the news case about the allegedly corrupt city council member. Both the police and the press suspect that the killer has more names on the list. Ole Bull travels to London to lay low for a while. It is a city he knows well and also the hometown of photographer Emma Byrnes. Little does he know that one of the traces in the murder case lead right there. It turns into a life-and-death race, both in London and on the west coast of Norway, and the skilled reporter is faced with taking the hardest decision of his life when the people behind the murder in Bergen get closer to their next victim. Love and Murder is a dark thriller about dangerous curiosity and journalistic integrity being put to the test over and over. Where Jørn Lier Horst knows how to write about the everyday life of a policeman, Atle Nielsen does the same with the life of a journalist.

The Night Runner
Mystery and Crime2022 · 192 pp

The Night Runner

Karin Fossum

In the dead of night he suddenly stands at the bedside of his victims, wordlessly pointing his gun at them... But who gets to live, and who will die?Fear is running rampant in a small Norwegian town: three people have survived attacks by the burglar known as The Night Runner – but how long until the first victim dies? Inspector Eddie Feber is sure that the mysterious number combinations at the crime scenes provide a clue - will he solve the mystery in time? What Feber doesn't know is that close to him, young Meidel Jonsson also feels that he is suffocating from fear: the day when his father is released from prison is getting closer and closer - and with him evil will return...REVIEWS «A charming detective and a nerve-wrecking crazy killer. This is Fossum-crime of the top shelf!»Dagbladet *****«The Night Runner is yet another insightful crime about those who exist on the outside. A large story in a small format, told by an author who is still at the top in her genre. After 18 published novels that's no small feat!»VG ***** «... entertaining and elegant novel from one of our incisive Norwegian crime writers.»Tønsbergs blad *****«The novel belongs to the top shelf because Karin Fossum is unusually elegant in her writing. She writes simply, varied and poetically. Different environments are described with atmosphere. The sentences can be crystal clear and full of significance at the same time. But most importantly: Karin Fossum doesn't settle for writing about police and robbers. That makes her crime novel something more than crime novels. ... Karin Fossum's language is precise and well written. Thus, a paragraph can say more than thousand words.»Aftenposten«The nuanced and close-up portraits of the criminal mind is something that characterise Fossums writing style, and which lifts her from pure crime to readers with a taste for the literary.»NRK «It is the descriptions and revelations of these combinations and variations in human behaviours that makes Karin Fossum's crime novels such strong reading experiences. She lets us into the dark corners, and shows us people who live on the borderlands.»Dagsavisen

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Newtons vugge
Mystery and Crime2022 · 384 pp

Newtons vugge

Lars Ove Sæther

Lars Ove Sæther won the Cappelen Damm crime fiction competition in 2013 with Hanegal and is now back with a driven, original psychological thriller. Isak has facial injuries that require him to undergo extensive facial and scull reconstruction. He is also adopted and is both harassed and bullied at school.Then, one of the bullies disappears... Newton's cradle is a book with many layers and and a very eerie twist.

They’ll Return in the Autumn
Literature and Fiction2022 · 280 pp

They’ll Return in the Autumn

Håvard J. Nilsen

The new students have arrived from all over; in cars, by train and bus, they have been left here with all their belongings, and they’ve spread out all over the hallways, taken over the rooms, filled them with their posters, their stereos, perfume, candles and dreams. They’ll Return in the Autumn is a novel set at the folk high school in Sandvik, about being the child of a teacher, about writing. It’s about the unsure and the sincere, those who stand staring at the stars with their father, those who walk around waiting for the world to end. It’s about finding one another and hanging lanterns in the trees.

Casualty of War
Literature and Fiction2022 · 368 pp

Casualty of War

Peter Franziskus Strassegger

One day, while tidying up, an author comes across a confession written by his grandfather. He isn’t unfamiliar with what he reads, but the new text brings new truths to light. Peter gains a deeper insight into his grandfather’s involvement in the war—at least as his grandfather chooses to remember it.This confession forms the basis of an intricate and exciting story from the Second World War. The grandfather’s story is characterised by a desire for adventure and a need to grow as a person in his hometown of Bryne, in Germany and on the frontline in Russia. But it also contains many unpleasant truths—particularly for Peter, who distances himself from his grandfather’s political position. With empathy, intelligence and a searching gaze, the author explores his grandfather’s story from the war. He travels to the same places, including Russia, and tries to understand what motivated his grandfather.

The Bellboy´s Luggage
Literature and Fiction2022 · 640 pp

The Bellboy´s Luggage

Lars Saabye Christensen

In The Bellboy's Luggage - Three Stories we venture into three different literary universes. Still, the narratives are connected through the author's unmistakable style and his topics of choice. Here we meet known and loved themes and artifacts from Saabye Christensen's repertoire, stories characterized by an author with great confidence in his own material. An author that dares to venture outside the frames of both novel and short story - without letting go of the joy and power of storytelling. Wild Wine, Polaroid and Used can be read as three unique stories. But they also form a triptych whose body consists of the Saabyean in itself. In these stories we find that the streets of Oslo and the characters at the outskirts of great events come into clearer view than ever before. The Bellboy's Luggage is a gift to anyone who has ever been excited about the writing of Lars Saabye Christensen.

Room 66
Literature and Fiction2022 · 224 pp

Room 66

Hedda Robertsen

The protagonist in Hedda Robertsen’s new novel, Room 66, clearly shares characteristics with the author. She—a young author living near Oslo’s oldest church—devours books and films about nuns and monastic life. She dreams of renouncing desire, of purity, a strict and regimented life characterised by routine and dedication to a task, a calling. But other forces also tug at her: she hungers for genuine connections with other people—with men. After several encounters with a nameless mechanic, she hires a car and heads south. Alone. Her destination? A convent in France. We also meet Chris. Single mother by day, stripper by night. At the club, she goes by Alice. Chléo is a receptionist and works at a beach hotel in France. Iris is a nun, and every morning she puts on her black habit and goes to prayer with her head bowed. Emma lives in London and lives in a sexless relationship with architect James. She starts sleeping with random men. The five women find one another and share their stories of love, grief, loss and passion.«It's an interesting and at times intelligent book about finding yourself sexually, but also as a human.»STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, five/six stars«To write about sex without it being awkward can be considered an achievement, and Room 66 is closer to Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac than Fifty Shades of Gray. The novel's extent of references and cultural undertones has higher intellectual ambitions, which is a breath of fresh air for Norwegian fiction.» MORGENBLADET«It's refreshing that Robertsen allows her characters to be unrestrained, and never forces them to be moral or politically correct. When the characters want to be beaten, filled - desired and enjoyed, they are more worried about how it will affect themselves, than how the actions are read by fellow citizens and society. They are all prepared to sacrifice the conventional to experience the special.»KLASSEKAMPEN, BOKMAGASINET

Sifonofor
Literature and Fiction2022 · 80 pp

Sifonofor

Lisa Him-Jensen

What patterns do we humans live and operate within? And what kind of order constitutes this ‘we’? The poems this collection reflect a lifelong quest for knowledge – from conception to the body’s eventual deterioration. A child discovers language, a young woman starts studying and discovering desire. A forest cockchafer swarms around a farmyard tree. Humanity tries to understand the boundless, resolute world of which we live – a world that goes on and on, a world home to countless organisms that all rely on one another to survive. In Siphonophorae, Lisa Him-Jensen plays around with contrasts and contradictions to great effect. A collection in which the reader is presented with one common motif throughout – that of humanity’s dependence on other people, and of our being a part of nature.