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Krø
Literature and Fiction2014 · 216 pp

Krø

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm

Krø is a neo-gothic horror novel about Adam, an orphan exjunkie with a family, permanent job and White World – a selfdeveloped 3D programme he can hide inside when life gets tough. One day Adam receives a letter. His grandfather, Ingvald, is at death's door and wants him to travel to Krø, a windswept island off the west coast. Adam travels from the safety of Oslo to this godforsaken island against his will.Adam discovers that Krø plays host to more than loneliness and a broken family. Why are the locals so hostile? What's behind the secret door in the basement? Who is the figure constantlypursuing him in White World? Soon Adam faces the greatest question of all: how far are you willing to go to save the ones you love? ‘Insidious thriller about a city boy who travels to the windswept west coast. Everyday lives from the pen of a dark, gothic creator of universes.’KLASSEKAMPEN

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The Strawberry Ladies
UpLit2014 · 256 pp

The Strawberry Ladies

Synnøve Eriksen

Året er 1956, og stedet er Jordbæråsen. Alle husmødrene i boligfeltet fremstår som vellykkede og lykkelige, med fasaden i orden. Men en dag flytter en ny kvinne inn, og idyllen blir brutt. Det er duket for intriger og avsløringer av uante dimensjoner. Melisglasuren på den nybakte kringlen var i ferd med å smelte i det skarpe solskinnet, da en skingrende kvinnestemme brøt triumferende inn. «Der er hun! Reis dere og se. Ingen ring!» De syv andre kvinnene reiste seg på kommando og stilte seg i smug bak gardinene for å betrakte den nyankomne. De så en kvinne i full gang med å pusse vinduer. De så også at fingrene hennes var nakne – uten giftering.

The Anthill Murders
Mystery and Crime2014 · 432 pp

The Anthill Murders

Hans Olav Lahlum

In my mind I've been standing here waiting every evening for weeks. But tonight, Monday the 24th of April 1972, is the first time I've actually done it. Of course I've stood waiting for women before, but never out here – and never like this. My watch shows ten to eleven. It's a dark, drizzly night. The rain further increases my excitement. When I left home I still doubted whether I would and could go through with this. Maurtuemordene is the seventh book about K2 and Patricia. There's a serial killer on the loose in Oslo. Young women are being found strangled in different parts of town. The killer leaves a strange, child-like drawing of an ant next to every body. The first victim is a pretty theology student, the next a somewhat flamboyant jazz singer and then, an heir to one of Norway's largest fortunes. But soon there'll be more. K2 gropes blindly for a link between the victims, but can't find anything other than the obvious – that they've all been murdered. Even Patricia's sharp mind and non-traditional reasoning falls short. K2 is in danger of losing his title as Oslo's undisputed best detective. His boss is anything but pleased, and the pressure grows with every hour that passes. This year's novel by Hans Olav Lahlum is an astounding psychological thriller. Previous books in the series have been sold to Denmark, Korea and the UK. ‘Despite having written many crime novels, he is still to receive the prestigious Riverton Prize for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Maurtuemordene should be one of the candidates for the prize in 2014.’ 6 out of 6 TVEDESTRANDSPOSTEN ‘Maurtuemordene is a very thoughtful and gripping story where brutality leads the way into a cold society where individuals often cannot find their footing.’ GJENGANGEREN

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MURDER IN THE STAIRWELL
Mystery and Crime2014 · 192 pp

MURDER IN THE STAIRWELL

Jon Øystein Flink

Murder in the Stairwell (Mord i oppgangen) is Jon Øystein Flink's fourth novel and seventh publication. The protagonist in the book is a nameless crime writer living a half dissolute and half predictable life in the capital. He is married and expecting a child with his somewhat more successful VG journalist wife, Kristin. When he finds a body in the stairwell of a friend's building in Oslo city centre, his life changes dramatically and the borders between fiction and reality start to blur. But the nameless protagonist uses all his wit and imagination to help the somewhat reluctant police force find the murderer. Crime was quite possibly the only genre Jon Øystein Flink hadn't got involved with. And considering the success he's had with his other books, it won't come as a surprise that the thrilling crime of Murder in the Stairwell will be both successful and widely discussed. ‘Original and consistently entertaining writing from Flink. If this is only the first of many books, then I very much look forward to a follow-up. This paves the way for a lot of fun in the future.’ FREDRIKSSTAD BLAD ‘Jon Øystein Flink’s hard-boiled trip of a crime parody is memorably energetic.’ MORGENBLADET

Operation Hydra
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2014 · 320 pp

Operation Hydra

Johnny Brenna / Sigbjørn Mostue

A young Jewish boy is brutally knocked down and scarred for life outside Ila school in Oslo. The same day, someone sets fire to the house of a prominent but controversial Norwegian politician. A mother of two is killed in the blaze. This is just the prelude to a wave of violent attacks against the Norwegian population. One thing that seems to connect these events is Norway's MiddleEastern politics.Axel Th. Munthe, undercover detective in Oslo police force's special operations department is brought in early in the case. Both he and the security service work hard to combat various different extremist groups, but they find themselves struggling to keep up as things escalate. Finally the threat is directed at the heart of what it is to be Norwegian: the independence day parade on Karl Johan street. Meanwhile, Axel tries to get his regular partner Tobben back on his feet following a personal breakdown. All while the clock is ticking and the decisive hour draws nearer for Axel and thenation of Norway. ‘Operasjon Hydra is solid literary crime writing in which the authors chase us through the pages. ... The fact that I have decided to read Mostue and Brenna’s two first novels also speaks volumes.’FÆDRELANDSVENNEN‘Mostue and Brenna write well with great flow and suspense. I can’t fault them.’5/6MOSS AVIS‘... the book deserves at least five out of six as it has received from most other reviewers. I look forward to a follow-up. The rest of you should keep your fingers crossed for Christmas.’EIDSVOLL ULLENSAKER BLAD

The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen
Literature and Fiction2014 · 288 pp

The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen

Bjørg Vik

In the years after the war, Elsi Lund is a young girl facing confirmation, friendships, infatuations, and the first tentative steps toward adulthood. She moves between new environments and crossroads — from the cramped tenement building on St. Hanshaugen to secondary school and gymnasium and experiences both the freedom and the limitations that come with them. Through Elsi, post-war Oslo is reflected: a city in transition, marked by class divisions, dreams, and the emergence of a new era. With her distinctive eye for detail, and with warmth, humour, and precision, Bjørg Vik portrays how small events can have big ripple effects in a young person’s life. The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen is both a historical portrait and a gripping coming-of-age novel — a story about longings, coincidences, and the struggle to find one’s own way. The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen is the standalone continuation of Small Keys, Big Rooms, and the second volume in Bjørg Vik’s unforgettable trilogy about Elsi Lund.

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Restraint
Literature and Fiction2014 · 176 pp

Restraint

Stig Sæterbakken

Andreas Feldt meets his oldest daughter, Marit, to take care of a financial matter. It has been years since they last saw each other. Seeing her again brings him out of balance, and in a confused moment he tells the daughter that he is divorcing her mother. This impulsive lie does not only destroy the conversation with the daughter, but also put doubt in his own mind about his own existence, shaped by routine and the people around him. A glaring suspicion awakens. It is like he has a blind spot in his memory. Is there something he has forgotten, something he does not want to, or is not capable of remembering? Restraint (Selvbeherskelse) can be read as a burlesque comedy and a dark tragedy. "Stig Sæterbakkens Restraint is a intensely exploring novel. That people loose self control happens all the time. And you are supposed to have certain feelings. But what if restraint is the only think keeping you from loosing your mind? (...) With his fourth novel Sæterbakken envisions his abilities to describe some of the least graspable aspects of human existence. Stig Sæterbakken himself appears as an insightful, independent and artistically reflected novel writer, with a book that you can only congratulate him on writing."DAGBLADET

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Say You´re Sorry
Literature and Fiction2014 · 240 pp

Say You´re Sorry

Roy Jacobsen

Roy Jacobsen´s authorship contains a number of great and well known novels - The Victors, Frost, The Burned out town of Miracles, Wonder Child and The Unseen, to name but a few. Less known is that he is also a writer of exquisite short stories, and has so far written four collections with great strength and intensity, and they have earned him both the Tarjei Vesaas First writers award and The Norwegian Critics Award for his short stories. Jacobsen´s short stories are full of surprises, and tend to leave behind a mysterious lingering feeling, that keeps you challenged. Say you´re sorry is a selection of thirteen of his short stories, showing how masterful this writer can be, also in short form. "I do not mind getting older, when I see the heir I have." KJELL ASKILDSEN

Siamese
Literature and Fiction2014 · 208 pp

Siamese

Stig Sæterbakken

"The light had gone out in the bathroom when I entered this morning. He had of course not noticed. He was sitting there in the pitch dark and chewing gum, like he always does, when I opened the door and the light from the hallway that fell sideways into the room cut him in two - I could see the back of the chair and the back of his head, nothing more - silver gum paper sparkling like valuable, swirling silently around his chair." In a typical suburban apartment lives Erna and Edwin, an elderly couple. He is blind and paralyzed from the waist down, and spends all the hours of the day in a chair in the bathroom. He thinks, chews gum and is tended by his wife. They have little or no contact with the world around them, and keep terrorizing each other in old and habitual patterns. They are both the "I" in this gloomy and absurd chamber play.

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DANGER OF AVALANCHES
Literature and Fiction2014 · 72 pp

DANGER OF AVALANCHES

Maria Tryti Vennerød

Maria Tryti Vennerød worked on the blog project "Five seasons" throughout 2013. There she commented on large and small political and private events using poetic/dramatic language. She collaborated with Det norske teatret to turn this into four stunt performances around the country before the final full stop was added to the third scene. A selection of texts were woven together to create exciting and humorous theatre. Skredfare is political literature in the form of poetry.

FINISH YOUR BOOK ABOUT YOUR LIFE
Literature and Fiction2014 · 80 pp

FINISH YOUR BOOK ABOUT YOUR LIFE

Linda Klakken

In the long poem Finish the book about your life (Skriv ferdig boka om livet ditt), we follow Norwegian-Armenian Adam Zamjatin in his meeting with what we like to call the new, modern Norway. A meeting between absolute democratic requirements, you might say, and abandoned democratic ideals. As one of “the others” in Norwegian society, Adam faces countless unforeseeable challenges. He wants, like so many others, to remain individual, even if this means he is never accepted. Finish the book about your life ditt is an empathetic long poem which considers whether it's really wrong to ask for help, wrong to need help, wrong to get by without help. Linda Klakken (1979–) lives in Oslo. She debuted in literary fiction with the poetry collection Mother, Wife, Slave (Mamma, kone, slave) in 2013.

AS THE TREE FALLS
Literature and Fiction2014 · 494 pp

AS THE TREE FALLS

Britt Karin Larsen

Winner of the Dobloug prize A farmhand comes to one of the big farms in Finnskogen, Valkola,and steals the aging Valborg's heart. Across the ocean, Amy finds a friend among the Native Americans. This new friend has abrother she also meets.?Nils and Elin, who now live in Oslo, dream about the smallholding they're going to buy. Will their dream ever become reality? Daniel, Taneli and Lina's son, who once dreamt of seeing his homeland and Finnskogen again, falls ill aboard the ship from America. The god child is still waiting for Karin with the beautiful voice to come home from America.The plot in Britt Karin Larsen'sSlik treet faller switches between those who emigrated to America and the remaining Forest Finns in Kristiania and Finnskogen. In this novel, the seventh in the series, events move up to the Second World War, when the Forest Finns are hit just as hard as the rest of Norway. Many of those growing up in Finnskogen are living in poverty, and things don't get any better when most of them turn to communism and are therefore not allowed to work.It is perhaps in portraying the strength and solidarity possessed by these distinguished and vulnerable people that Britt Karen shows her greatness as an author. ‘Beautiful, poetic and magnificent.’6 out of 6 VG‘Most of all, it is the intimate details that draw us in. Here you will find love and jealousy, longing and sorrow, and most of all destiny. ... The novel is a mosaic of short episodes that together constitute a great drama of destiny about small yet strong people in the mighty and merciless maelstrom of time that will not stop for anything or anyone.’DAG OG TID ‘What is most compelling is how she manages to maintain the action without any deadlocks, especially with a huge cast of characters that are always developing. ... Her novels are about mankind’s longing to fit in even though the urge to withdraw is just as strong. And it is in the tension between these forces that this wide-ranging family chronicle evolves.’HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD‘This is classic storytelling from the heart and mind, using a poetic language that gives literary lift.’DAGSAVISEN ‘Poetic and beautiful … Britt Karin Larsen’s very personal and lyrical language sets her apart from other Norwegian writers.’VG about SOM STEINEN SKINNER‘Fantastic stories from Finnskogen Himmelbjørnens skog is an unexpectedly rich and earthy tale, crudely expressed and yet sophisticated. Superb!’ADRESSEAVISEN about HIMMELBJØRNENS SKOG ‘Britt Karin Larsen’s prose is sheer poetry and she has a great capacity for engagement.’WERMLANDIA, SWEDEN about DET VOKSER ET TRE I MOSTAMÄGG