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Hellfire
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2015 · 256 pp

Hellfire

Karin Fossum

Inspector Konrad Sejer is called to investigate the double murder of a mother and her young son. They have been found, knifed repeatedly, in a worn-out caravan on a remote piece of land. A bloody footprint is discovered. Meanwhile, another mother, dying of cancer, confesses to her 21-year-old son that he is adopted. The man who abandoned them, whom the boy has become obsessed by, is not his real father.Delving deep into the vagaries of family and why we lie, Fossum expertly intertwines their stories, forcing us to question what drives people to commit the most horrific of crimes. This is the twelft book about Inspector Sejer. Hellfire is one of Karin Fossum’s best crime stories. … In her writing, Fossum expertly captures the nuances of everyday life and the way in which living people struggle to make sense of life. She does it with a subdued tone and an unwavering dedication to her characters. … In Helvetesilden, the story approaches a point which is heartbreaking rather than thrilling. This novel shows that Karin Fossum is in a class of her own as a crime writer.DAGSAVISEN Here she delivers what must be one of her most penetrating and moving novels. An author at the height of her creative ability. … The composition is almost a stroke of genius in itself, as for a long time we are at a complete loss as to how Fossum intends to fuse the parallel storylines. … The way she does it demonstrates both her mastery of her trade and her formidable ability to portray tormented minds without diminishing them through inconsequential platitudes about insanity and other dissociative diagnoses.AFTENPOSTEN The opening scene showcases Fossum at her best – the dank camper van, the heat and the brutal murders. The detailed, subdued tone; the grotesque in the middle of the everyday.DAGBLADET Karin Fossum is the most literary of the Norwegian crime writers ... The novel is skilfully composed, and several of the characters from Hellfire will remain with the reader long after the final page has been turned.ADRESSEAVISEN

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White Shadow
Literature and Fiction2015 · 240 pp

White Shadow

Roy Jacobsen

This is the stand alone sequel to the successful novel The Unseen. White Shadow is a dramatic love story from the small island Barrøy in the year 1944–45. Ingrid thinks she is alone on the island, but experiences an unusual love affair in the course of several intense winter-weeks. In this novel Roy Jacobsen gives us a welcome reunion with the people of Barrøy. This time he unrolls an even bigger canvas as he delivers a powerful and eventful novel about a fateful year in Norwegian history. ‘Roy Jacobsen’s novel creates plot without sweeping gestures and effects. The unspoken dramas lie in the subtext of many of the utterances. Through the art of suggestion, the reader is constantly drawn into the underlying tension of the book, which is created through the interplay and exchanges between the novel’s protagonists. Few other contemporary Norwegian authors match him in living up to the Hemingwayesque motto of “show don’t tell”, using language that bears the stamp of the terse style of the sagas. It is masterly.’ Tønsbergs Blad 6/6 Great, great art from Roy Jacobsen ‘The only thing to be said about this book is that it is fantastic. Gripping. This is less to do with the novel’s story than the very way Roy Jacobsen has told it. He has a fantastic story to tell, true, but in another author’s hands it could easily have become a mess of sentimentality. In Jacobsen’s it has become great, great art.’ Fæderlandsvennen 6/6 Beautiful and brutal ‘He is the master of the coastal folk, Roy Jacobsen, a virtuoso, poetic portrayer of coastal culture – with its fish, boat crews and practical activities. (…) The novel is safe in the hands of a novelist who commands a wonderfully beautiful language and has a poetic power. The dialogue and the powerful expressions in local dialect create authenticity. The chapters and scene after scene are rounded off with elegance and finesse. Roy Jacobsen masters the short format. A joy for heart and soul.’ VG 6/6 ‘Jacobsen’s poetic prose is well-tempered for the most part, and yet it is remarkably rich in precise, era-appropriate nouns. Among the novel’s most outstanding qualities is its capacity to fill the rooms of the empty houses on Barrøy with ghostly traces of the past.’ Morgenbladet ‘Roy Jacobsen is a true storyteller; with his capacity to give the reader both overview and detail in the same image – without losing perspective. (…) In White Ocean, life is portrayed with both beauty and brutality.’ Bergens Tidende 5/6

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In the Best Sense
Literature and Fiction2015 · 224 pp

In the Best Sense

Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg

Helene grew up with foster parents Anna and Helge. She has now started her own family and moved back to her home town in the hope of saving her marriage with Karl. It is winter, they are living in a huge old house, and Karl is working out of town. He says that he cannot come home because of the weather. This novel tells the story of Helene's search for companionship: about feeling like a guest in her foster parents' house, about young love, longing and loneliness. Helene and her growing sense of unease are headed for a storm: will Karl come home?I beste mening is an insightful novel about belonging. Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg explores communication problems in close relationships and how people can become lonely even in the most seemingly ideal situations. It is also a novel about those that fall between the cracks, about those who are too unforgiving for most, but not confident enough when it comes to those closest to them, and about how the incorrect assumptions we make about the motive of others can have serious consequences. ‘A strong story of being disconnected and the need to belong. … This book’s strength is the author’s insight into what it means to be human. It is with warmth that she investigates what is necessary to feel that you belong, how expectations of dedication can be too high and how trust is a risky business.’5/6 FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

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Let Us take the Blue Skies by Storm
Literature and Fiction2015 · 112 pp

Let Us take the Blue Skies by Storm

Odveig Klyve

Let us take the Blue Skies by Storm tells the story about a political process with great opposites, with the building of great electrical masts in the area of Hardanger. The poems in this collection raises questions that concern us all, about managing the nature around us. Odveig Klyve animates relations and conflicts between people, nature and society in her distinctive way in this strong and important collection of poetry.

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Magnet
Literature and Fiction2015 · 784 pp

Magnet

Lars Saabye Christensen

Winner of the Brage Prize 2015. For nearly three years, every single day, Lars Saabye Christensen has been writing his new novel. It will be standing as a major work in his authorship. Beatles was his great youth work, The Half-Brother the middle-aged man's masterpiece. Magnet is the aging author's masterpiece. In this work, he has invested everything he has, and at the same time – and it is the most impressive – it seems that he is doing something completely new.Magnet is a love story. It is about a mismatched couple who try to pull in the same direction with all their might. Jokum is a photographer who will take pictures of the ordinary, he will see the beauty and melancholy in the world. Synne is an art historian with Edward Hopper as her specialty. She is drawn towards fame, towards the spectacular. He feels more at home in cheap stores and second hand shops than in galleries and museums. Through his pictures he will show how time is present in everything we have. He manages this. Until he takes a picture of their dead child.The novel was shortlisted for the Booksellers Book Award and the radio channel P2-listeners Novel Award.. 'There is something very unusual about being one of our most popular authors and being highly ranked in international literature at the same time. That is the status of Lars Saabye Christensen and his writing.' TØNSBERGS BLAD 'I rarely read a long novel which is so full of mature wisdom and beautiful language and which at the same time manages to surprise the reader with unexpected turns.' BERGENS TIDENDE 'For this is a bounding, scenically based story full of tragic life events and comic slapstick figures, complications, digressions and strange happenings, jokes, aphorisms, anecdotes, metaphors, paradoxes, allusions, quotations, blues songs, diary notes and sketches; cunningly put together; linked to distinct leitmotifs and with a formidable range of voice, scene and comment; carried forward by an ambiguity about love, art and culture, birth and death; focussed on arousing feelings and reflection more than pompous admiration.' STAVANGER AFTENBLAD 'Magnet is securely on a level with Beatles and The Half-brother.' VG 'In Magnet Lars Saabye Christensen delivers a best-seller; a tender, sore and seriously funny love story.' HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD 'A master wordsmith is at work here.' P2 'Magnet is Saabye in absolute top form. A 780 page brick of a book, with all the typical and therefore slightly parodic Saabye elements intact, but fortunately so elegantly assembled that it not only tolerates the high number of pages and the feeling of repetition, but sometimes flourishes on them.' DAGSAVISEN ' ... a splendid read with bitter-sweet and recognisable pictures of the times and a genuinely exciting love-story of a very varied pair. The dialogue is tightly-written, impressive and quotable.' DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV 'Well prepared, well composed, well written, well presented. Enjoy!' VG

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Mule Boy
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2015 · 120 pp

Mule Boy

Øyvind Torseter

The king has sent six of his seven sons out into the world to find suitable princesses. They do not return, and Mule Boy insists on finding out what happened to them. He discovers that the troll has turned them and their brides into stone. He enters the mountain to find the troll and free the princess that the troll has captured. This is a funny twist on an old folk tale. There is a lot of humour and funny lines in the book. It is impressive and exciting to enter the mountain together with Mule Boy, and the princess is both tough and charismatic. We also know Mule Boy from previous books. The illustrations are beautiful, funny and fanciful both in terms of line and use of colour.Mule Boy was nominated to The Nordic Councils Childrens Book Prize in 2016. ‘… a beautiful little hero story about impossible choices and fearlessness, about fighting for what you believe in and finding happiness. This is fun reading for adults and children, and it is perfect for young people who will go on to compare narrative styles and values in contemporary texts with those in myths and folklore when they are at upper secondary school. Mulegutten should feature in a course or three.’ DEMOKRATEN ‘Øyvind Torseter lets his imagination run riot through a classic story. It’s particularly funny if you’ve heard the story before. Curiosity, adventurousness and courage characterise the young prince who rides out to save his brothers. Curiosity is a word that can also be used when talking about Øyvind Torseter himself – the result is a fantastic picture book that both children and adults will love.’ NRK 'Torseter is an entertaining story-teller, in both words and pictures.' DAGBLADET Danish Review Cuttings: The Mule Boy by Øyvind Torseter ’Mulegutten is a formidable work (…) This book fully deserved the Norwegian Critics Prize for 2015, and stands out as the most original illustrated book in many years. If it were possible, this book should be given 7 full stars!’ BERLINGSKE ‘This is a supreme presentation of a folk tale. (…) Elements from the present day are brought in, but the traditional folk-tale struggle between good and evil is maintained. (…) Øyvind Torseter does this well. “And then the Princess and the Mule Boy lived happily ever after. ‘ BOGBOTTEN ’The picture pages are outstanding (…) Mulegutten is a modern hero in a classic epic. So he stands apart from the metaphor, leaving it to the reader’s imagination. This is beautifully done. FINE SPIND 'Mulegutten which at the same time celebrates, unites and renews the genres of the classic folk tale and the cartoon series (…) Mulegutten is a book for all ages, which offers much on many different levels.’ KRISTELIGT DAGBLAD ‘Torseter’s pictures have a quite special and modern quality. (…) A beautiful and exciting book, which is not afraid to be different.’ MICHAEL LINDAL ANDERSEN

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Everything Will Be Hidden in One Hundred Years
Mystery and Crime2015 · 480 pp

Everything Will Be Hidden in One Hundred Years

Per Arne Totland

In 1924, the Norwegian government was forced to enter into a secret agreement giving the Soviet Union control of Svalbard in 2020. But this document soon went missing under unclear circumstances, and the agreement was forgotten. It resurfaces more than ninety years later. In a time when Europe is standing against an agressive Russia that wants to be a superpower in the far north of the world. The Russian president implements a comprehensive plan to undermine Norwegian sovereignty in Svalbard. The battle for the Arctic gains a new dimension, and drama unfolds in Longyearbyen. Om hundre år er allting gjemt is an international thriller that reflects the political conflict that already existed when the Svalbard Treaty was entered into in 1920 and that may flare up again as the eyes of the world look to the Arctic. ‘Om hundre år er allting gjemt is frighteningly close to our reality.’FORSVARETS FORUM‘The battle for the Arctic is given a new dimension in this interesting first novel.’VÅRT LAND

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Save the Children
Literature and Fiction2015 · 128 pp

Save the Children

Tiril Broch

Tanja has moved to Hakadal outside of Oslo with her husband and two children. Here she tries to build a home, make packed lunches, keep the driveway clear of snow, teach her children the difference between right and wrong – and put the past behind her. This proves more difficult than she initially imagined.Save the Children is a warm, powerful novel about sorrow, fear and everday Sisyphean labour.‘It is well done to write such a rich novel about such hard and big questions in life, in so few words.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

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Sauermugg
Literature and Fiction2015 · 264 pp

Sauermugg

Stig Sæterbakken

Sauermugg is a novel filled with energy, a gripping tale about a person in existential crisis, characterized by great linguistic power, intense depictions of the mechanisms of power and love, and topped off with a great dose of pitch-dark humour. "The entire novel is light and elegant, with short and tenderly marked paragraphs, bouncing and consistent all at the same time, filled with howling black humour, abounding with witty and smart formulations given to the pen and tongue of a man that says "it has never fallen natural to me to be natural".STAVANGER AFTENBLAD "If you characterize the theme as a combination of Sartre and Camus (the sickness and the absurd) and Strindberg (the lhate of love and the hell of marriage), you have a good pointer about what this is all about. But Sæterbakken surpasses his predecessors in a big way. (...) You should read Sæterbakken for the sake of your lacking of peace of mind, and the pleasant discomfort it brings."DAGBLADET

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The End of the World as We Know It
Literature and Fiction2015 · 280 pp

The End of the World as We Know It

Erlend Loe

Doppler is back. After years deep in the woods, Doppler remembers that he has a family. He puts Bongo, the moose, into a kennel for deer and makes his way into Oslo. He is looking forward to seeing his wife and children, but his old house looks strange. On the name labels on the mailbox, his name has been crossed out and a new one put in its place: EGIL HEGEL. Doppler thinks he has reached rock bottom, but his troubles have only just begun. 'Probably this year’s funniest book.'ADRESSEAVISEN 'The End of the World as We Know It is dystopic cultural critique with high entertainment value.'VG 'Loe’s most entertaining novel for a while, and an eventful journey.'DAGENS NÆRLINGSLIV 'Loe’s new novel stands out as the best means of enduring the world as we know it right now.'NRK 'The satire of the last two books is in many ways as before, but the cut seems darker, more rebellious and sharper. Thus Loe becomes even more recklessly funny ...'MORGENBLADET 'And the observations are good. Sharp. The themes Erlend Loe lets himself reflect upon are definitely contemporary. A book for our time.' DAGSAVISEN 'The crusade against cleverness and conformity continues.'DAGBLADET 'Awfully funny.'KLASSEKAMPEN 'This book is really entertaining. Doppler’s whimsical turns and apparitions are its strongest feature. … a romantic universe and a character still prominent in Norwegian literary history.'VÅRT LAND 'A fantastic character with a rich selection of qualities.' AKTUELL, LO-MEDIA

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Gooseberry Sisters
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2015 · 320 pp

Gooseberry Sisters

Siri Østli

Sisters Marilyn and Marlene are both named after Hollywood stars. But that is where the similarity ends. Marlene is the one with her life in perfect control – anything from fashion and her house to her life partner and ovulation. Still it is the enchanting 'My' who finds it easier to make friends – and have children. My's seemingly perfect life has just imploded. Her husband slept with the nanny, and now she’s left both him and her home. She's also lost her self-confidence. With her daughter Amanda, My has moved back in with her mother. There, My has to deal with journalists and gossipers, the helpless pony-tail-man who's her mother latest project, and the child protection services. But she also learns the importance of having a sister, and how to stand up straight when everything around her falls to pieces. Charming and well-written! This is a charming book, easy to read, funny and well-written. It has a colourful character gallery and just the right amount of complications. I am again struck by how brilliantly Siri Østli masters this genre. DAGBLADET

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We Welcome You
Literature and Fiction2015 · 240 pp

We Welcome You

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo

How to grieve in the shadow of a national grief? In We Welcome You meet Arild and Sella, who each in their own way are coming to terms with having lost a son in a ferry accident. That was eight years ago, but after 22nd July 2011 their grief is reawakened. This is a novel about the people on the fringes of the national catastrophe who are still drawn into its emotional undercurrent. It is also a love story about two people compelled to make the choices which keep them alive. ‘Evjemo’s writing is brilliant, unpretentious, precise and nuanced. He describes the space between people. The distance. The silent sorrow. The loneliness. The despair. And he has the unique ability to do this subtly, using props with which we are all familiar ... But he also writes about love, unity and a sense of belonging. It's real. It’s important. And it is penned by an author who would appear to be one of the best that Norwegian contemporary literature has to offer.’ADRESSEAVISEN ‘Everything that was unclear or completely overlooked before is suddenly laid out. Details that you didn’t notice before suddenly become not only visible, but charged with meaning ... He has a unique way of looking at the everyday occurrences, practical details and past events that dominate our lives.’DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ‘Velkommen til oss doesn’t have any dramatic twists and turns, clichés or caricatures. This is an unassuming novel about loss and grief, and a novel which could easily be read more than once.’KK ‘One seldom encounters such accomplished writing. Every sentence vibrates with aesthetic delight and existential solemnity.’BERGENS TIDENDE ‘Evjemo has made several successful attempts to counteract everyday triviality with compositional originality. He writes lyrical, thoughtful passages and allows his characters to enter a monastery or be part of a tragicomic amateur theatre production without giving into the temptation to make fun.’DAGBLADET ‘The sorrow is well presented from a clever perspective, and there is not a line too many.’TRØNDER-AVISA‘I am a great admirer of Evjemo’s empathetic and cinematic bird’s-eye view and I hope that he goes on to write many more books.’VG‘... a considerate and precautionary depiction of people burdened by sorrow, a sorrow that, if it does not completely paralyse them, will change the way in which they relate to each other and themselves. Based on the traumatic events of 22 July on Utøya and in the centre of Oslo, Hofstad Evjemo paints a gentle and sensitive picture of what the trauma that we all feel to varying degrees has done to a few individuals and families – those closest to the victims. He does this indirectly and with the greatest discretion.’STAVANGER AFTENBLAD‘... Evjemo is careful with such opportunities, and the result is a sober text, cleverly written in pure style by an author who is able to put themselves in someone else’s shoes and see things from their usually so inaccessible perspective, and he is successful in this without resorting to shortcuts, constructions or flirting with the reader.’DAG OG TID

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