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Walking Home
Literature and Fiction2022 · 96 pp

Walking Home

Mathias Nyhagen Asplund

In a merciless tale told in meticulous language reminiscent of both Faulkner and Fosse, Asplund writes the story of a young man called Halvor who is trying to find his way home. Halvor has been fighting the war at sea and now plans to return home to his pregnant wife. He walks across mountains and through valleys, he meets a woman and a man carrying their son’s coffin, he meets two friends who have left the city to “be free”, and he is coaxed into the home of a young woman and her mother, who needs a man to help her. They tell him that there is a bear in the area, and that the bear is vicious. The road home is long, and on it Halvor encounters tragedy, temptation, kindness and mortal peril. Walking Home is Asplund’s third book.

Åsgårdstrand
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Literature and Fiction2022 · 320 pp

Åsgårdstrand

Stig Aasvik

Åsgårdstrand is a small town by the Oslofjord, but also a condition, an open wound in the life of the protagonist. In the late winter of 1989, his mother dies suddenly. The family falls apart. The protagonist is standing at the threshold of adulthood and feels abandoned and unprepared. Of all the thoughts going through his head, there is one that persists: disappear, from his family and from Åsgårdstrand, from everything. The protagonist is a middle-aged man when he writes about the upheaval and loss he experienced as a teenager. We meet him going about his everyday life as a family man and author. The memories are fragmented, fragile and uncertain. Åsgårdstrand is the fifth novel in a series that started with The Lofoten Wall (2017). The books can be read as standalone stories but have a consistent form, an inner coherence and a common thread.

Eight
Literature and Fiction2022 · 240 pp

Eight

Gine Cornelia Pedersen

Eight is a collection of stories about people teetering over the edge – each in their own way. The characters are confronted with their urges, their feelings of jealousy and their intense longing to be loved. By creating images of themselves in others, the people in these stories are able to avoid themselves. Ingunn Bjørkli changes her name on social media to Aurora Irene Høst, in the hopes of erasing Ingunn for good. Meanwhile, Reiden Østby makes a new friend in her yoga class, but this friend starts giving her gifts and trying to get closer to Reidun than what she is comfortable with. Gine Cornelia Pedersen has made her mark as an author with a distinct voice. Eight is a collection of stories about people here and now, about their human impulses and desires: their longing for love, their jealousy, selfishness, intense irritation and grovelling admiration.

The Christmas Calendar
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2021 · 352 pp

The Christmas Calendar

Siri Østli

During breakfast on a totally ordinary Tuesday, Fie's husband declared that he wants a divorce. He is a dentist, and for years Fie has been his faithful assistant - without pay. Fie is banished from her home, to an impractical and uncharming attic apartment on the other side of the city. Dazed and in despair after losing everything, Fie tries to soften the blow with sedatives. Her adult son, embarrassed about his mother's breakdown, refuses her calls. As Christmas approaches, Fie’s sister Sara demanding that she gets a grip. To help her along the way, Sara makes a Christmas Calendar with tasks for Fie to do. Like getting a job, decorating her apartment, getting a pet. Can the calendar get Fie’s life back on track, and into the Christmas spirits? The Christmas Calendar is a charming and touching Christmas book from the Norwegian queen of feelgood!

Charming Christmas story from Norway's Queen of feelgood
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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.