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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
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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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Gospel
Literature and Fiction2021 · 224 pp

Gospel

Geir Olav Jørgensen

Gospel is about an inner journey from scepticism to belief in a higher power. It starts on the day the narrator’s father is diagnosed with cancer. The narrator looks back over her life, recalling her relationship with a childhood friend, who ended up going off the rails. Gospel contemplates an itinerant life spread over several countries. Is there a journey that can only begin now? The message of Christianity is explored and held up against a culture in dissolution.

Father’s Garden, Mother’s House
Literature and Fiction2021 · 304 pp

Father’s Garden, Mother’s House

Eskil Skjeldal

When Mikael Emanuelsen walks up the churchfloor at his father’s funeral, he hasn’t seen his parents for ten years. After scattering soil on the coffin, he finds himself face to face with his mother. She tells him she is travelling to Spain and that the key to the house is in the same place as before. Mikael remembers his father, who cultivated a beautiful garden, and his mother who kept order in a silent house. But can childhood memories be trusted?

Water Lily of the Wreck
Literature and Fiction2021 · 88 pp

Water Lily of the Wreck

Charlotte Louise Vaillot Knudsen

With uncommon playfulness, Vaillot Knudsen combines wavy oceanography, volcanic activity, stabbing (extinct) animals, mysterious minerals, eroticism and spirited growths. An I and a you find themselves in a rocking boat, surrounded by a strange and sensuous world with jazzy soundscapes and marbled northern lights – and beyond it yet another sphere, with quivering heavenly bodies and marvellously meandering eternities. The poems move through time and space in wild eruption, transforming and peeking out from odd angles (...) The poems are elegiac about the loss of nature, and manage to present this via a great appetite for flowers, maritime life, stones and joyful sounds (...) Throughout, the vocabulary is skewed and strange yet meaningfully heavy and concrete, in such a way that the writing both begins and ends in the joy of words. (...) The aforementioned joy of words and search for the world’s components lend a great deal of merriment to the poems.KLASSEKAMPENA sing-song journey that equips the reader with a couple of extra senses and several stimulants. Is this how words play nature?KLASSEKAMPEN, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 Exalted plant life An imaginative mix of people and plants (...) In general, the poems emphasise how the earth’s components seep through one another. (...) Botanical names and biological terms are combined with poetic empathy. The images can be more or less esoteric, and one begins to wonder what kind of creative world they spring from. Here, the sensuality that binds the self and the planet occasionally acquires magical qualities.MORGENBLADET Poems bloom like flowers in a park Charlotte Vaillot Knudsen invites us into an expansive poetry park that abounds in lifeforms of all shapes: here you can run free (...) The Poetry Park Knudsen creates seems to be a revival of l'art pour l'art, art as a free space where aspects of mankind, elsewhere oppressed, are given full expression. (...) I only know that the airy feeling of freedom I get from Waterlily of the Wreck is good, and has me wanting to feel it for a long time still.BLA (Bokvennen Litterær Avis)

Merry Christmas. Where are You?
Literature and Fiction2021 · 80 pp

Merry Christmas. Where are You?

Beate Grimsrud

An amusing and warm-hearted little book about the many Christmas Eves in the author's life. In the first story from 2011, the narrator and her older sister are inside their sleeping bags, dug into sandy hollows in Jordan's Wadi Rum desert – which brings back the memory of childhood Christmases when she shoved disliked presents into a box and, in the summer, buried it in a large hole in the garden. The narrator thought this was the only way to bury nasty memories of unwanted gifts. She insists: “Always give children what they want. And if that cannot be done, help the child to no longer want the impossible.” The book is written in Beate Grimsrud's very special language and expresses her unique views on life. The text is illustrated with photos from her childhood and youth. Charming and personal Christmas stories which most of all are about the joys of having a older sister.DAGSAVISEN A beautiful and strange Christmas book for all sisters in all countries.DAGBLADET

The Boys in the Forest
Literature and Fiction2021 · 288 pp

The Boys in the Forest

Bjørn Olaf Johannessen / Erlend Loe / Per Schreiner

9th April is a bad day for Thorvald: his marriage collapses and the Germans come marching up Oslo’s main street, Karl Johan. Thorvald decides to become a resistance fighter. He finds a cabin in the wood, puts an advert in the paper and sets up the Thorvald Group – a group which has, for various reasons, been overlooked by posterity. One reason may be that they spend more time fixing up the cabin than carrying out sabotage actions.

If I Should Die Some Day
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

If I Should Die Some Day

Åsne Maria Gundersen

A mother has a stroke that robs her of her ability to walk, control her feelings and recall the past. For her daughter, this triggers an avalanche of feelings, thoughts and memories. Why does she fear her mother’s death when she doesn’t need her? In compact, poetic language, this novel tells a story about growing up as next of kin, pushing a stroller in the cemetery and waiting for a death and reconciliation that never seem to arrive.

I Think You’d Like Ulrik
Literature and Fiction2021 · 320 pp

I Think You’d Like Ulrik

Jonas Sundquist

Theodor drifts between seminars and parties, drinks IPA and lives in a dingy bed-sit in Oslo. No one knows he is gay. When he meets Ulrik, he finds the courage to do things he has previously shied away from. It is the start of a double life. I Think You’d Like Ulrik is a rich, entertaining novel of youthful rebellion, about parties, destruction, sex, loneliness and the sense of kinship that can spring up between people who have just turned twenty and left home.

The Caliphate
Mystery and Crime2021 · 416 pp

The Caliphate

Terje Bjøranger

The body of a young man is discovered on Bygdøy island, Oslo. He is found wearing an orange coverall, and sitting with his own severed head held in his lap. Acts of terror strike Norway and Sweden, and the brutal nature of the attacks shake the peaceful Scandinavia. A young Yezidi woman is released from captivity, after several years as a sex slave in the Islamic State (IS). The Yezidi woman, who calls herself Baso, discovers that her former “owner” is now located in Sweden. Together with the Norwegian and Swedish police forces, Police Investigator Charlie Robertsen learns that the terrorists behind the recent attacks have even bigger plans. For even if the Islamic caliphate, seated in Raqqa, Syria now lays in ruins, the dream of the Caliphate still lives on. Charlie’s criminal foster son, Kim, is released from prison and ends caught up in the young yezidi woman’s burning desire for revenge, landing him in the crossfire between Charlie and the Jihadists.

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