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After Us
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

After Us

Gunn Marit Nisja

The year is 1967. After an exciting - and cataclysmic - year at folk high school, four girls go their own ways. They were going to be friends for life.Forty years later, Ingrid is alone after her husband Arvid suddenly passes away. Even though many years have passed, she summons up the courage to call one of her old friends. Both love and conflict soon come back to life. Perhaps it isn't too late for them after all.After us is a tender and warm novel about friendship, love, and the meaning of life.

TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOURSELF IN A GOOD WAY
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Literature and Fiction2019 · 240 pp

TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOURSELF IN A GOOD WAY

Kine Jeanette Solberg

Inga loses her elder brother, quits her job and becomes inadvertently responsible for the death of a cat. Inga's brother could call her and say that he was sick, and that she was not allowed to contact the doctor, that no one else understood. Now she is left with a freedom of sorts. She walks into the local pub Creutz, orders a beer, and some plaice. Tell Me more about Yourself in a Good Way is a mournful and reckless novel.

Home
Literature and Fiction2019 · 128 pp

Home

Sigbjørn Skåden

2048: A child is born on Home, a previously unknown planet named after the research expedition that established a colony there a few years earlier. The researchers left Earth with the goal of establishing a colony, well aware that they can never return. As researchers, they are willing to take the risk and the psychological strain it entails. But the child's mother is no longer a researcher; she is a mother – and she has plans for her daughter that no one knows about.2147: The descendents of the first people are living on the edge of starvation inside the dome on Home. The animals the first people had brought with them died long ago, they haven't managed to get anything to grow outside the dome walls, and all electronic equipment are outdated and discarded. After a storm, another dome suddenly appears on the landscape. The new people present themselves as having the same motivations as those who came a hundred years before – they speak of hope and community. But when the truth about the inhospitable conditions on Home sink in, another agenda gradually comes to light.

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BIRD LANGUAGE
Literature and Fiction2019 · 368 pp

BIRD LANGUAGE

Knut Ødegård

Claus is the son of a front-line soldier now growing up in post-war Molde. His father's thesis on the origins of The Heimskringla was lost during the bombing of Leipzig. The large house on the hillside falls slowly into disrepair, while apathy and illness spreads throughout the family. A Polish violinist escapes to Molde, where a preacher from Fiji and a German prince also come. Claus talks to birds while the city's war heroes are killed in mysterious circumstances.

Part Me, Part You
Literature and Fiction2019 · 112 pp

Part Me, Part You

Ellen Mari Thelle

Part Me, Part You is a novel about being a mother, becoming a mother and having a mother. The latter is mandatory, the others are choices. This is also a novel about life and death, birth and every day life. The thin line that separates it all. The sudden. And slow. Memories. Life shaping life. What is lost.

Hell
Literature and Fiction2019 · 136 pp

Hell

Erlend Loe

Rakel is newly divorced. Her ex-husband’s new girlfriend has a sparkling laugh and bakes her own crispbread. Rakel has to move from her villa into a smaller townhouse. She has custody of her children every other week. With plenty of time on her hands, Rachel decides to tackle her small patch of garden with a rusty shovel she finds in an old shed. Just as she starts digging, she uncovers a hatch that happens to lead straight to Hell. At Hell’s front desk, Rakel buys a stamp card, so she can come back. She also buys nuts to feed Satan, who is Hell’s main attraction. (His favourites are macademias.) When Rakel sees Satan for the first time, their eyes lock, and Satan’s gaze doesn’t let go. It’s a devilish gaze. This journey to the heart of darkness comes with typical Erlend Loe absurdism and lots of dark humor. Illustrated by Kim Hiorthøy. Yours truly had the greatest of times with this book! Loe does not make a batter bigger than what he can beat, but what hell of a cake he is baking! The naïve lines in the illustrations by Kim Hiorthøy suits this absurd and delightful novel that also has a very surprising end. ADRESSEAVISEN, 6/6 STARSLoe is witty and satirical. Childish and wise at the same time. He messes around with stereotypes, standardized language and human weaknesses. Hell can be read as an allegory of life and what happens in the tension between the highs and the (cellar) lows. The book touches the modern feeling of vigour and doubt. Even the Devil - who´s sister is God, who has become so hard to handle that she is "the main problem for evil" - trembles and longs. He is "full of longing" and doubting the whole system. Quite human. Maybe that is why it is so easy to like the novels by Loe. They are fun stories about doubt, weak moments, crisis and contra productive life strategies. The are about life, a topic that matters to most of us. DAGBLADET, 5/6 STARS Charmer in Hell... elegantly illustrated novella about the hustle and bustle of Hell.STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, 5/6 STARS The book pokes at the modern feeling of life and doubt. Even the devil, whose sister is God and so difficult that she has become «the problem of the evil», falters and yearns. He is «full of longing» and calls «the whole system into question». Quite human. Perhaps that is why it's so easy to like Loe's novels. They are fun stories about doubts, weak moments, crises and counterproductive life strategies. They are about life, which affects most people.DAGBLADET 5/6 STARS

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The heavens will weep blood
Mystery and Crime2019 · 384 pp

The heavens will weep blood

Sigbjørn Mostue

The heavens will weep blood is a one-of-a-kind thriller journey.Even Stubberud is a soldier in the Special Forces. But now he has fallen sick with cancer. Before he leaves the force he takes on one last mission: A simple escort of a terrorist to Somalia. The plane from Oslo is hijacked, and the terrorist is set free. The only one who can save the 245 passengers from certain death is an unarmed man, sick with cancer, with no knowledge about planes.Sigbjørn Mostue has written a fast paced story that also touches our hearts. At times you might have to loose it all to win what is most important.In this thriller he effectively make a spin on that tiny bit of discomfort that we all feel when we fasten the seat belt and get ready for take off.AFTENPOSTENWildly exciting thriller of the old school kind. Like reading about Indiana Jones, or any hero like him, borderlike superhero. An ageing elite soldier is overseeing the transfer of a terrorist. But the plane they are on get hi-jacked by a group of creepy Russian terrorist. What does the soldier do? He gets the job done.DAGENS NYHETER, Sweden

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Hold the Elevator
Literature and Fiction2019 · 144 pp

Hold the Elevator

Nora Lindblad

She wants to be a responsible person and puts her Chanel purse for sale online for 50,000 kr. She practices driving in a red Audi with her mom in the back and her boyfriend in the passenger seat until the glass breaks. She stops taking happy pills and moves in with westside girl Mia, who teaches her that it's never not the right time to drink a little bit of wine. She's at a festival, in a tent with the wrong boy, in the wrong position, when it hits her: natural is a relative concept. Nora Lindblad's debut book Hold the Elevator is comical, direct and true to life. The young people we meet in the novel are strong-willed, demanding, desperate, horny and persevering.

DOWNWARD DOG
Literature and Fiction2019 · 192 pp

DOWNWARD DOG

Line Nyborg

Siv has taken her son Adam, and left both her home and husband. Now Adam sits in his bedroom playing on his computer, while Siv attempts to make a new start. She meets two men who pull her in different directions. Is it possible to meet someone new without bringing the past with you? And what does opening up to someone really mean? Downward Dog is a novel about teenagers and their parents, about yoga and passion, and about reaching for something.

HOW LONG WILL WE LAST
Literature and Fiction2019 · 160 pp

HOW LONG WILL WE LAST

Mari Andreassen

What do you do when the bully from primary school sits down in front of you in the chair at the hairdresser where you work? When you, a retired pediatrician, are approached by a former patient in a bewildered state? Or when your job as a dentist has left you terrified of bacteria and you're about to go on paternity leave? Quiet desperation and emerging crises mark the encounters and the people in Mari Andreassen's debut novel, where decisive moments are depicted by a finely tuned eye. “Just run out and get the book, like and share and hope for a fall with plenty of rain, so you’ll get enough time to read these short stories two-three times over, and discover new things every time … She delivers a book which is the keenest debut I can remember [in fourteen years]. She doesn’t seem to take after many others. She is wholly her own, with an astonishingly well executed narrative technique …”BOK365"The omnious and undecided are fundamental parts of the construction in Mari Andreassen's debut collection of short stories, “How long will we last”. In these seven stories, we meet people who have lost or are currently at risk of losing someone – a significant other, a spouse, a child. Often they operate within an emotional borderland. That makes them unpredictable. Anything can happen.”DAGBLADET

Autumn in March
Literature and Fiction2019 · 144 pp

Autumn in March

Georg Johannesen

Johan Liman is about to lose his vision, and he only wants one thing: to get a last glimpse of his ex-girlfriend, Liv. Shortly after the reunion, he makes a fatal choice. The infatuated teenager has become an assassin for the terrorist group You First. How could it end this way? Georg Johannesen's debut novel from 1957 is a tragic love story, but also an accurate analysis of the author's era.

IDA TAKES CHARGE
Literature and Fiction2019 · 224 pp

IDA TAKES CHARGE

Kjersti Halvorsen

Ida's greatest fear is terror. This doesn't get any better when she meets Aksel at University; a lone wolf with dubious interest in weapons. Aksel has become an outsider, and Ida needs to take drastic measures: How can she save Axel – and the world? Perhaps equally important: How can she save herself?Ida Takes Charge is a dark and funny debut novel about overcoming fear and finding your calling in life.NOMINATED TO THE TARJEI VESAAS DEBUT PRIZE 2019. Brilliant language ... precise and observantThe novel explores, among other things, what can create a breeding ground for loneliness and xenophobia in young boys, which allows them to end up as misogynists, despisers of society - or school shooters. It is well portrayed, and you have to confront yourself with it while reading.DAG OG TID This book is freakishly well written about anxiety in general, and specifically anxiety about terrorismThe peculiar double nature of compulsive disorders, and what is actually reality, is masterfully communicated. The story is a thriller, in the shape of a detective novel where the reader turns the page with great expectations of what revelations they will find on the next page. Ida´s emotions move in waves, between catastrophe thinking and good experiences. Between her thoughts and the events that calms her, and a fear bordering on paranoia. And the reader experiences the waves too, accompanied with the hope that she will find a way out of her anxiety. This is freakishly well written, in content as well as topic and style.ADRESSEAVISA This book is a gem, in many ways a mystery novel. Halvorsen writes with a razor sharp edge about internet stalking, anxiety and fear in general. It is a story about keeping our catastrophe thinking in check, something many of us might need right now.DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV Fear and loathingKjersti Halvorsen strikes a nerve between fear and crippling anxiety. She is good at writing about what is nasty and disgusting. The book has a dark humour in its mellow deadpan way, a humour that suits the anxiety.KLASSEKAMPEN At no point does it become boring. Halvorsen keeps a steady course through the entire novel. During the reading of Ida takes Charge, you will inevitably ask yourself what you would have done in the same situation. How to treat someone who is on the outside of society? It is an excellent debut, character driven, with no need to lean on some meticulous plot to attract the readers.MINERVA The debut of Kjersti Halvorsen is founded on a brilliant idea. Like Elfriede Jelinek or Albert Camus, Kjersti Halvorsen works in uncompromising ways, taking her main characters in extreme directions. She dissects the most problematic sides of contemporary society in a very interesting way, by investigating two damaged twenty-year-olds.STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

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