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Andre og bedre historier
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

Andre og bedre historier

Edel Maria Landsem

Above the earth we tell stories. Stories of hugs and bodies and souls and sex. Dewy-fresh words and old sentences, genious pieces and deceitful memories. We want to be thinking humans in a gliding story, vagabonds with free will, free feet and a free head. Other and Better Stories by Edel Maria Landsem is a burlesque and sassy collection of short stories about everything that can happen when what’s well-behaved and normal is on collision course with the baser forces of our human nature. A woman travels to London in affect after a breakup, and ends up shitfaced in a hotel bar, grasping for the wrong guy. Another is on a romantic weekend getaway in Paris with her husband, but sneaks outside during the night wearing only a trenchcoat while he is sleeping. A third becomes so jealous that she reveals a scandalous secret about the parentage of her friends’ child. A fourth visits her father in a nursing home, gets terrified of early dementia, takes a leave of absence from work and travels to Switzerland. The women in these stories experience the small despairs of everyday life while dreaming of travels, self-fulfillment, excitement and belonging, all while they are feeling deep longing, spite, and the urge to break free. Fresh debut about well-behaved women's everyday despair, spite and primordial powers ... one can rejoice in a vital, rythmical languace, rich fantasy, odd perspectives, depth and knowledge, and not least, a significant dose of liberating and totally normal madness, as several female protagonists go off the deep end. FIVE OUT OF SIX STARSSTAVANGER AFTENBLAD Landsem’s talent is clear, her humanist capital is large, and taking into account her mode of writing – her essayistic, novel-like fragments without an obvious plot, but with surperior linguistic authority – I think we’ll see thicker books from her pen in the future.VÅRT LAND

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Anne F.
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

Anne F.

Kristian Klausen

What happens when you move well-known biographical figures to a new place and give them new surroundings, a different background, a different narrative arc and an alternative ending? Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen in spring 1945. Before that, she and her family, along with four other Jewish people, spent more than two years living in hiding on the upper floor of business premises in Amsterdam until they were discovered and deported. Kristian Klausen’s novel, Anne F., portrays Anne and her father Otto in Drammen and it is Otto Frank’s Drammen that is depicted for the reader. Until the outbreak of war, Otto Frank runs a tobacco kiosk on Konnerudgata. Later, again, it is Otto’s perspective we see. We meet him alone in Auschwitz and at Drammen railway station after the war, as the sole survivor. It is Otto who obtains the diaries that were left behind and starts to live through them. A thought-provoking, gripping book from Kristian Klausen.

Bunker
Literature and Fiction2021 · 208 pp

Bunker

Rune Salvesen

Bunker is a novel about fear: about the fear of failing in creative endeavours but also about not letting that fear take control. It is about the fear of exposure to terror or violence and what, in extreme cases, that fear can drive us to. In this fragmentary structured novel, we encounter three voices: the first belongs to the first-person narrator, who has just delivered a new book manuscript to his publisher. Is what he has written good enough? How far has fear marked the life he has lived? Salvesen writes about what it means to write a literary universe into being, about how and why the I-narrator does it and how artists must live with the consequences of their art. The second voice belongs to David, who has lost his father and his job in the oil industry. He feels alienated in the life he lives. Now he has planted a bomb outside the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate in the coastal oil town Stavanger and has gone into hiding in a bunker beneath the sea. The terrorist act was organised by others and David has escaped the consequences for his action. When the bomb went off, he was already out of range. What and who has this action turned him into? The third and final voice belongs to Snorre Sand, an author who has taken early retirement and who helped cast the concrete of the bunker where David now is during the Second World War. He looks back over his eventful past – war, imprisonment, love, a literary life – and tries to seek meaning in an existence in which he no longer writes. But his story is cunningly interwoven with the narrative above David and a kind of essay about the first-person narrator’s own writing process. Everything is connected with everything else. What motivates a terrorist? What is the essence of fear and violence? What does isolation do to us? And how are these elements connected with the premises of all artistic work? Bunker draws the reader into uncomfortable questions that affect our own age and is a latticework of questions and threads in which readers must seek answers and direction for themselves.

Echoes of the City
Literature and Fiction2021 · 464 pp

Echoes of the City

Lars Saabye Christensen

The fourth volume of Echoes of the City centres on Jesper Kristoffersen and Trude Hagen, whose destinies are closely bound to the city and the streets they live on, as well as Oslo’s other inhabitants. Fagerborg and the world are shrinking, the pace of life has stepped up a notch: it is the 1980s and a new generation is taking over, a generation with the world at its feet. The tramlines bind the city together but also lead to places that take people out of the city ­– whether to Hurdal, Sweden or Lake Como. Regardless of how different their dreams may be, their struggles place them at odds with the city and the world.

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The beautiful days
Literature and Fiction2021 · 128 pp

The beautiful days

Rannveig Fern Leite Molven

On an island at the mouth of the fjord lies a house where Edith lives with her daughters, Agnes and Cecile. They have lost a father and a twin sister. The house contains a telephone exchange and a telegraph, which Edith operates on behalf of the whole island community. The German Gestapo officer, Wilhelm, stops by regularly to interrogate Edith about who they call and when. At the same time, a young man is in hiding from the Nazis as he waits for a boat to arrive at the island. The Beautiful Days is a beautiful, poetic novel based on potent material, with an unbroken thread of tension quivering through the entire story.

Thereafter
Literature and Fiction2021 · 216 pp

Thereafter

Harry Man / Endre Ruset

Over the space of four and a half years, and through the pandemic, Norwegian poet Endre Ruset worked with UK poet Harry Man to write poems in memory of those who were killed during the tragic events of the Oslo bombing and the mass shooting on Utøya Island on 22 July 2011. Rather than write a conventional book of elegies, they were interested in preserving some of the values held by these young and politically active teenagers and young adults. They finally arrived at the idea of concrete elegies. These poems, written in the shape of faces, draw upon a long history of traditional elegy that travels as far back as Virgil’s Georgics. Additionally, Man and Ruset blend found poetry from eyewitness testimony, court documents and material used in the 22nd July Centre in Oslo, so it is the victims and survivors who are brought to the foreground. For the past ten years, the conversation around mass shootings has focussed on the perpetrators with little attention paid to the real human cost. One of the ways in which we might begin to repair that damage is if we refocus our attention on the world around us – we turn to poetry in times of extreme emotion for this purpose; to help us to make sense of what Douglas Dunn referred to as the otherwise ‘resistant’ subject of grief. This book's intention is to continue that longstanding tradition of empathy and to exercise poetry's capacity to remind ourselves that even in our individual solitude, profoundly, we can still share in one other's humanity.Harry Man

Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2021 · 240 pp

Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog

Karin Fossum

We’re in it together, she said. No matter how it ends, we two are in it together – can you promise me that? That she’ll die pretty soon? They looked at each other and smiled. After all, it was only a game. Aksel is a journalist with the local newspaper whose boss says he’s ‘good at tragedies’. His sister Ellinor has lost her job and is desperately seeking to escape from reality. Brother and sister have been close since childhood, bound together by destiny. A gas leak on a one of the big farms kills several hired hands in their sleep. It looks like an accident. In a nearby house, an 80-year-old woman is found lying at the foot of her stairs one day, with a crushed skull. Somebody has left the place in disarray to make it look like a burglary. In Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog, we meet a new and unusual detective: Eddie Feber – a man blessed with joie de vivre and eight children. Alert and seemingly chaotic, he nonetheless has strategies for bringing the dark truth to light.

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You Don’t Remember This
Literature and Fiction2021 · 192 pp

You Don’t Remember This

Emely Benedicte Kahrs

Four women in a house in the forest. Three of them have recently gone through breakups, two have brought their children with them. Over a few short summer weeks, they share food and wine, as well as their experiences and frustrations with men and coupledom. And they boil eggs. Nelly tends her little girl lovingly, but her gaze also betrays guilt, shame and a hope that one day the girl will understand why her mother left her father. The book is painful and rich in detail, with fine, powerful tales of the women’s shared summer, described with tenderness and humour. At the core of the novel is the delicately nuanced, heart-rending tale of a mother who is afraid of losing a daughter.

Your Own Mask First
Literature and Fiction2021 · 176 pp

Your Own Mask First

Camilla Bogetun Johansen

After a cross-border shopping trip to Sweden, Ulla is thrown out of her bedsit. Soon afterwards, she finds herself in a camping cabin without running water but with some social security money in her pocket – and an urge to do something big. She decides to save Reppar Fjord from becoming polluted by mining sediment. She throws away her mobile phone and sets out on a journey of enlightenment, in which she learns, among others, about the joys of camping and why you should never trust a llama farmer.

A Serious Disease
Literature and Fiction2021 · 96 pp

A Serious Disease

Cecilie Almberg Størkson

The poems in A Serious Disease deal with a woman who is diagnosed with cervical cancer. We accompany her from the moment she receives the tough news, into meetings with doctors and gynaecologists, through radiation treatment, chemotherapy and routine check-ups, in her intimate relationships, on the long and winding road back to good health. These direct and wondering poems offer the reader insight into a momentous experience.

The Early Rain
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

The Early Rain

Sondre Midthun

Northern Norway in a future blighted by drought and extinction of species. Inge and his daughter Live are struggling to continue with their lives after the rest of their family was killed in an accident. Inge processes his grief in solitude by wearing his dead wife’s clothes. But the suspense ratchets up when pushy Tidemann finds out about Inge’s secret. What should Inge do? How will this be used against him by the top dog in the neighbouring village?

A Random Bureucrat
Literature and Fiction2021 · 304 pp

A Random Bureucrat

Lars Saabye Christensen

Gordon Mo works in the Ministry of Agriculture and is the very model of a grey bureaucrat. But inside he’s seething and now and then he has to relieve the pressure: that’s when he checks into a hotel and lets off a bit of steam from the pressure cooker. This works fine until one day at work when a cake is served up in his honour: that day, unfortunately, the pressure becomes too much for Gordon Mo. To cut a long story short, by the next day he no longer works at the ministry. But unlike many 60-year-old bureaucrats who lose their jobs, Gordon Mo is not superfluous: a shy old man who’s seething inside needs something. This is the starting point for Gordon Mo’s journey, which begins at an institution outside Baltimore that is supposed to get him back on his feet again. There he encounters the night watchman, Only Me, who will turn out to play a decisive role in the novel. What’s more, there’s a certain Frans Meek in the background who’s pulling the strings and ensuring that things continue to boil over here and there. A Random Norwegian takes the pulse of our age with stinging wit and warmth.Norwegian Reviews: Serious playfulness in zesty new Saabye Christensen novel.BOK365Funnier than ever.For this is a contemporary novel, darn it! And as such it is equally absurd, smart, funny, provoking and elegantly written.Dagbladet – Five stars out of Six Filled with energy!The book is full of linguistic energy, smart turns of phrase and just the right number of eccentric individuals, just like you would expect from this author....I could just keep on quoting for a long time, as this book is full of little literary pearls. But rather, I'll just say: Read the book!VG – Five stars out of Six Invited to a party by Saabye Christensen!Lars Saabye Christensen has written an original masterpiece. I will only tell you this once: Get this book, clear your schedule and take your time with these three hundred pages. The author invites you to a linguistic Party with a capital P and a minor undertone. In the company of a Random Bureaucrat and a few other individuals....Linguistically spiced up with intelligent and intense formulations – almost an encyclopaedia for your next public speech.NETTAVISEN – Six stars out of six. Saabye Christensen’s engaginged and energetic novel could hardly be any more contemporary than this. (…) And the sentences. Wonderfully quotable aphoristic golden nuggets – the speciality of Saabye Christensen.DAGSAVISEN

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