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PASSENGER STORIES
Literature and Fiction2019 · 144 pp

PASSENGER STORIES

Ylva Berger

A mother and son go on a reconciliation cruise in the Mediterranean. A woman has a breakdown at Heathrow. And someone else witnesses an accident on the bus driving through Oslo. The characters in Ylva Østby's playful debut novel wrestle with the same questions no matter where they are in the world: Who are we in relation to other people, and in relation to our own memories? What is true and what is real? An initial praise to the author: These texts are fiction. She has exquisite use of literary means, linguistic imagery, asssociation and motives. In her best stories she shows us that "less is more". I predict a great future in fiction for Ylva Østby. KLASSEKAMPEN

SUDDENLY HOT WEATHER
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Literature and Fiction2019 · 208 pp

SUDDENLY HOT WEATHER

Ingeborg Arvola

Through the window of the travel agency, Lillian sees the Russian girl pushing the buggy with the child of the man who was, until recently, her boyfriend. At the horseracing track, a woman eats a bad hot-dog and has a vision. In the Mediterranean, Einar goes diving and retrieves objects no one should find out about. Ingeborg Arvola's third book of collected stories Suddenly Hot Weather contains comic, hopeful, gloomy, and magical stories about human life.

The Porcelaine Girl
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

The Porcelaine Girl

Gunn Marit Nisja

Kristin is in her late thirties, and to her mother´s great disappointment still single and childless. But her dream comes true when she opens the café Little Pots in the hamlet of Åndalsnes. At the night of the opening, nineteen year old Marta knocks on the door. Kristin hires Marta, even though the young girl is clearly marked by a dark past. When Kristin´s father dies abruptly, she is expected to come home and take over the family farm. Can she let her family down and follow her own path?

The Porter Residence
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 304 pp

The Porter Residence

Gøril Emilie Hellen

Ten year old Svanhild thinks she lives in the safest place in the world: the porter residence by the city hospital, where her father Johan has a post as a porter. She idolizes her brother Einar, almost ten years her elder, even though the adults say that his imagination has run wild. Svanhild is going to Girl Scout camp, but she misses her brother, who's been admitted to the psychiatric hospital. The day Svanhild comes home from camp, tragedy strikes. The Porter Residence is a poignant and poetic novel about a family that falls victim to the post-war healthcare system and treatment methods of that time.

On the Edge of Vigeland
Literature and Fiction2019 · 72 pp

On the Edge of Vigeland

Roy Jacobsen

Roy Jacobsen's celebrated essay on his many childhood visits to the Vigeland Park, the world's largest sculpture park by a single artist, and his mother's mysterious dentist appointments, is now a book of its own, accompanied by photographs. This personal essay is a must-read for all Jacobsen fans. 'Not only does the text impart knowledge about Vigeland's artwork, but it also approaches something I understand to be the driving powers in Roy Jacobsen's authorship, rife with countless strong, complex female figures as it is. Making the invisible struggle visible isn't just a goal for his newest series fra Barrøy on the Helgeland coast (…) The essay is appalling, upsetting – and encouraging.'KLASSEKAMPEN'I wouldn't have believed that one of the year's best reading experiences would show up in an anthology about Oslo's art collection.'AFTENPOSTEN

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Edge of the Sea
Literature and Fiction2019 · 144 pp

Edge of the Sea

Lina Ulvestad Halås

As a part of her job as a nature consultant, a young woman goes back to the island and house where she grew up to evaluate the site where the municipality is planning to build a new museum. She is staying at home with her mother, where memories of her dead brother are constantly popping up: in the smell of his room, his old anorak. Edge of the Sea is a stylish and sharp novel about missing – and remembering – whether it is in the form of rooms, clothes, cartoons, or an old Beetle that's still sitting in the garage. Halås has her own way of capturing memories and feelings.

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Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 64 pp · Age 12 - 18

SABOTEUR - OPERATION MUSKETOON

John S. Jamtli

A dramatic war story unlike anything you've read before! We're in Northern Norway in 1942. It's a dark and cold September evening. Suddenly a submarine – Junon – rises out of the water, and twelve commandos on a sabotage mission appear. Operation Musketoon is underway. It's a very risky job. A team consisting of two Englishmen, one Canadian and two Norwegians row quietly into the fjord. Their target: the Glomfjord power station. Their guide is a young soldier from Linge-company, Sverre Granlund. This is his story. While Saboteur, John S. Jamtli's first critically acclaimed graphic novel about WW2, was a tall story based on reality, Saboteur – Operation Musketoon is the story as it really happened. But it is no less dramatic! Readers get to follow the saboteurs closely, over the mountain, through storms and fog, with the enemy hot on their heels. Based on the experiences of Sverre Granlund – who went from being a local guide in Northern Norway to carrying the whole operation on his shoulders.

LOOK THE OTHER WAY
Mystery and Crime2019 · 368 pp

LOOK THE OTHER WAY

Torkil Damhaug

Two destitute brothers, Karol and Marek, make a living from robbing people in downtown Budapest. One day they suddenly come across a valuable and deadly catch. Marlen, a Norwegian anatomy student, is studying in the Hungarian capital during her first year. She meets Marek by chance, and is quickly swept up in a nightmarish maelstrom. Is it a coincidence that the people around her are dying, one after the other, in quick succession? Look The Other Way is a psychological thriller from the beautiful and brutal side of autumnal Budapest.

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Smiley Face Thumbs Up Rainbow
Literature and Fiction2019 · 152 pp

Smiley Face Thumbs Up Rainbow

Victoria Durnak

Ivana wants so be an actress, but can´t get into the Theatre Academy. Kaja is engaged to a man (Jostein) who is cheating. She contacts Ivana with the following suggestion - that she in one way or another befriends the mistress (Sunniva) and make her end the affair she is having with Jostein. "You could start by becoming a member of the same gym that Sunniva attends, and then take it from there? You will be paid well. And the experience will make you a much better actress - it would actually for sure get you into the Theatre Academy the next time around. I give you 12 months. What do you say?" Friendships are like locker rooms. Some of them are solid, with dimmed lighting and classy interior. Heat in the floor. Nourishing soap in the dispensers. Others are built in the cheapest possible material and have lighting that always make you look your worst.

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Sponge
Literature and Fiction2019 · 80 pp

Sponge

Morten Langeland

LEAVE: Memories of the fun and games of childhood, the South of Norway, the sudden loss of safety. An international poetry festival in Macedonia, the Balkans, as one of the invited poets. Read quickly - read loud! LEAVE: Balkan consists of two words. Bal meaning honey, the fertile land, everything green and the most beautiful girls, the wine. Kan meaning blood.

The Swarm
Literature and Fiction2019 · 160 pp

The Swarm

Anders Malm

Four young boys, ABC and D, refuse to live as individuals instead they seek a new form of existence: The Swarm. By the help of a strict code of honor, based off made-at-home algorithms, they attempt to rid themselves of individual burdens and the contemporary demands for exceptionality. When they find a collection of leftover designer clothes, that used to belong to one boy's mother, the parental generation's worship of the individual starts to interfere with the boys' collective project. Can the algorithms free us? This is an ambitious and dystopian novel about four boys denouncing the individuality and trying to melt into one. If you have had it with contemporary novels drilling into the every day problems of the urban middle class, Anders Malm is a fitting, if ever so gloomy, direction to turn. The thoughts are interesting, and the reader stays challenged all the way. FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

SMOLDERING FIRE
Mystery and Crime2019 · 352 pp

SMOLDERING FIRE

Monika N. Yndestad

A bus stands totally ablaze in a tunnel in Bergen. Alice Bratt, a journalist at Bergens Tidende, quickly realizes that this is no ordinary road accident. What's hidden within the burned-out wreck? The matter ends up deeply personal for Alice. One of her good friends, Hassan, was on the bus; and while Hassan lies critically injured in hospital Alice starts receiving emails. And in nine days the city's new mayor will be elected.