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Flesh and blood
Literature and Fiction2022 · 240 pp

Flesh and blood

Mari Andreassen

Johanne’s due date is fast approaching, but the trauma of her previous labour has taken hold of her body. Her daughter Sigrid was born under dramatic circumstances via c-section, which led to mother and daughter being kept separate at the hospital during those first vital hours. Johanne is convinced the separation ruined her daughter’s connection with her and that it has become a permanent damage to their relationship. This time, with the new baby, everything needs to go well. The family finds out her husband’s great aunt Tilla has passed away. Johanne has never met her, but now her house needs to be cleaned out. Something awakens inside Johanne, and she becomes obsessed with finding out more about Tilla, who isolated herself in her house after becoming a widow and only met people sporadically. Could Johanne end up like that? Is she able to confront herself by mirroring herself up against the lonely life their great aunt led? Flesh and Blood is a novel about understanding and processing the distance between oneself and one’s closest relations. In Tilla’s life Johanne can see herself and her own fears. She must find new ways to handle and approach what’s awaiting her: the new labour, the new life for their family.

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Hunt for shadows
Literature and Fiction2022 · 240 pp

Hunt for shadows

Annabelle Despard

”We were a broken family. I don’t know if we were ever whole, but nonetheless I’d like to put it back together. I want a family reunion (…). I go outside. It’s become a search party. I finely comb the flower beds, ask the goldfish if they know something, look behind the sundial. Out on the fields I walk like a posse, all alone. I poke the dirt with a stick, but it seems disrespectful; I’m hunting for shadows. Nevertheless, I bust up bushes and shrubs, as if I’m on an English hunt for pheasants. As if my father would flap up like a large pheasant. A highly decorated pheasant in uniform. Just him? Where is my mother? Did she fly high like a swallow? Was she a pigeon who cooed by his side? And where are the playing children with blue eyes and curls?” Annabelle grows up in England, and as a five-year-old her mother passes away from cancer. Not long after she’s sent to Norway to live with her grandparents, while her father stays overseas. Hunt for Shadows is the adult author’s attempt to process the loss, the void, to examine how it’s affected her life. First and foremost, this book revolves around attempting to get to know the humans that put one on earth – putting together one’s family, piece by piece, like a puzzle. Why do we become the humans we do? How do our childhoods shape our lives? What does the loss of a mother and the absence of a father mean for the life that goes on? With warm humour and a lot of vulnerability, Annebelle goes to work investigating her father’s history, and she gradually gets close to recognising what the loss of her mother has meant for her. The result is a memoir full of subtleties, a small treasure chest of a book, which surprises and moves the reader.REVIEWS«The book is filled with fantasticly exciting observations, cross cuts between the author's life and the big classics in literature. She excels in referrals and digressions to British authors, to Shakespeare most of all.»Fædrelandsvennen, five/six stars«Annabelle Despard has succeeded in writing a wary and beautiful story where the very writing and narrative, composing and the literature is more important than her own person ...»Stavanger Aftenblad, five/six stars

The Knife in the Fire
Literature and Fiction2022 · 448 pp

The Knife in the Fire

Ingeborg Arvola

The Knife in the Fire is a riveting historical novel about work and love, strong communities, and carefree erotica, the individual and the community. The year is 1859. Brita Caisa Seipajærvi straps on her skis and takes the long road from Finland to Norway with her two children. Brita Caisa has been disciplined by the church for having an affair with a married man. She can heal animals and humans. The destination for their journey is Bugøynes, where the sea is said to be brimming with cod. The Knife in the Fire is the first title in the Ruijan rannalla/Songs from the Arctic Ocean series, about Finnish Kvens and the landscape they live in. Brita Caisa was the great-great-grandmother of author Ingeborg Arvola. Arvola’s writing evokes the smell of blood after slaughtering reindeer, the taste of cloudberries, the feeling of coldness from the snow and heat from the fire.WINNER OF THE BRAGE PRIZE FOR BEST WORK OF FICTION 2022NOMINATED TO NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE 2023NOMINATED FOR THE BOOKSELLER'S AWARD 2022NOMINATED FOR THE CRITIC'S AWARD 2022NOMINATED FOR THE YOUTH CRITIC'S AWARD 2022The Knife in the Fire is a magnificent epic tale by Ingeborg Arvola. A fascinating and riveting read, with an ending promising for a future continuation. And yes, the publisher promises that there will be a trilogy. ******VG A dramatic, poetic and steamy novel sets the bar high [M]ore than anything, it's the forbidden attraction and love between Brita Caisa and the married Askan Mikko that gives the story its force. It's been long since bodies and desire have been portrayed so nakedly and simply put, sexy, in a Norwegian book! A sensuous, realistic and very poetic novel.KLASSEKAMPENThis really is an absolute treat of a novel. *****ALTAPOSTENJuicy sex and unbridled desire... Bestseller-potential. ... a riveting novel about love, work and superstition. ... historically interesting. ... can be read in one lustful rush. *****DAGBLADET There is much to like about this novel, dealing with an less communicated part of the Norwegian, Sami and Kven history. The writing is excellent, the story is exciting and dramatic, the descriptions of the landscape are beautiful, and the character descriptions are realistic. *****AFTENPOSTENMost exciting is the descriptions of the love between Brita Caisa and the married farmer Mikko, with intensely sensual erotic writing as a result. Together they are greater than his bible and triumphing the judgement by society. STAVANGER AFTENBLADForbidden love, boiling arctic fishing and warm hands. Ingeborg Arvola's novel set in Northern Norway has everything required to become a bestseller. ... lovesickness this hot – and equally steamy lovemaking – I have not encountered in a Norwegian novel in quite some time.NRK.NO Oh my, The Knife in the Fire is a good book ... Human and nature really melt together when Brita and Mikko are alone (without clothes) in the dead of night. And here Arvola writes so intensely and powerfully that the reading glasses fog up to ... All in all, Arvola writes really, really well. Insanely well, in fact. Like a dream you didn't know you were walking around with.BERLINGSKE (DENMARK), five/six stars A fascinating novel about the problems of cohabitation among nomads in Lapland. POLITIKEN (DENMARK) Arvola writes a bygone world out of oblivion, a Scandinavian Wild West where life was hard and death quick. It is not difficult to understand why 'The Knife in the Fire' has received so much praise. In the novel there is a hard-to-define energy that inspires confidence in art as well as life. It radiates not only from the exceptional character of the protagonist but also from the very language of the book.GOTHENBURG POST (SWEDEN) It is not difficult to understand that Arvola was awarded the Brage Prize, Norway's highest literary award, for this novel. It is a fascinating portrait of people's lives in an area during a time rarely described in literature.VI LÄSER (SWEDEN) I am totally blown away by the power of the portrayal and without a doubt name this one of the greatest reading experiences of 2024, even though the year is only a few weeks old! ... [U]nforgettable and impressive. Ingeborg Arvola received the 2022 Norwegian Brage Award for the masterpiece. An excellent choice!ALINGSÅS NEWSPAPER (SWEDEN) It is a beautiful book with a poetic, soaring language ... a both painful and life-giving experience.SYDSVENSKAN (SWEDEN) It is with great empathy that Ingeborg Arvola puts Brita Caisa and her sons on a pair of skis and sends them out in search of a new life... I salute Marianne Mattsson, who must have struggled with the translation of a prose that wanted to maintain a linguistic tradition, where, for example, the same person can have three different names.AFTONBLADET (SWEDEN) Besides the figure of Brita Caisa Seipajærvi, who both fascinates and frustrates, it is the insight into a world that is new to me that is the biggest takeaway from 'The Knife in the Fire'. The northern Norwegian Finnmark, which I have never visited in reality, and neither can I remember travelling there via literature’s travel agency. Ingeborg Arvola succeeds in portraying both the magnificent and the challenging life that characterizes the place. The story teems like the cod in the sea off the coast.GEFLE NEWSPAPER (SWEDEN) Arvola creates a strong presence with her intense snapshots of work and togetherness with people living in the grip of nature and chance. Poetry flows through the brutal narrative while dreams turn to dust and Brita and Mikko walk towards the abyss. But the last word about them has not been said. A trilogy is promised. As a reader, you are hooked. You want to know how it goes for these tightly drawn people, drawn into a vortex of emotions and events.VÄSTERBOTTENS-KURIREN (SWEDEN) ... a captivating tale of Finns, Sámi, and Norwegians in the wilds of Finnmark – spiced with an Arctic love story.Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)

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Confirmation
Literature and Fiction2022 · 304 pp

Confirmation

Eivind Buene

How can you be a good dad when you only ever see your daughter for a few days at a time? Is it possible to put your differences aside and come together as a family again when your daughter is getting confirmed and a big party is being thrown in her honour? It’s late summer, and Endre is alone at the cabin with the boat. Long mornings tripping out to the mouth of the fjord, quiet days living as he pleases. He knows he’ll soon have to return to the city, to the flat in Grønland, to work—and for Emma’s confirmation. Years have passed since he and Emma’s mother split up. Have they co-parented well enough over the years? Have they managed to give their daughter, Emma, a good life? Can Endre say that he’s done his best as a part-time father? And what awaits Endre now that his daughter is on the cusp of adulthood and soon to start making her own way in life? Confirmation is raw, tender and exploratory.

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
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.