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GAUTE & VERONIKA
Literature and Fiction2018 · 192 pp

GAUTE & VERONIKA

Kristian S. Hæggernes

Gaute & Veronika is a novel from a house in which one waits for death and contemplates the past. Lisbeth and Truls were childhood sweethearts and have now been together again for over ten years after each having been married and lost their spouses. Lisbeth's adult son, Gaute, lives with them, spending his days sitting in the Chinese restaurant or library nearby. But this autumn Truls' daughter, Veronika, also comes home.

The Grave
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Mystery and Crime2018 · 400 pp

The Grave

Monika N. Yndestad

Seventeen years ago, fifteen-year-old Pia Espeland disappeared. But her parents have never given up hope that she is still alive. Entertaining and realistic journalism crime from a critically acclaimed author.

Hush
Literature and Fiction2018 · 96 pp

Hush

Vigdis Hjorth

Something happens that makes the prostitute start spying on one of her customers, a family man residing in the wealthy area of Frogner in Oslo. The summer is warm; there is a smell of flowers and dust in the calm streets. Here a grim drama takes place, with a brutal outcome. ...that it is possible to write something so beautiful about something as awful as the inevitable loneliness of man.BERGENS TIDENDE

The Polar Bear Puzzle
Mystery and Crime2018 · 352 pp

The Polar Bear Puzzle

Hans Olav Lahlum

On Friday 18 May 1973, 16-year-old Jørgen Magnus Kvamme disappears without a trace on his way home from school. His single mother reports him missing, and police inspector Kolbjørn ‘K2’ Kristiansen is handed the case.It takes on a new dimension when K2 finds out the identity of the boy's father has been kept secret. He is the powerful business man Bjørn Christopher Fabricius, a timid old giant referred to as the Polar Bear. K2 also stumbles upon an unsolved 40-year-old mystery involving Fabricius' eldest son, who was kidnapped from his childhood bedroom in 1933 and never found.Hans Olav Lahlum returns with his ninth book in the historical crime series about K2 and Patricia, this time with a hair-raising and magnificent crime drama that is also a thought-provoking family history.Lahlums newest book in the series about the investigator duo K2 and Patricia Borchmann, The Polar Bear Puzzle, is the best he has written so far about the two. Lahlum exceeds himself in this high paced and exiting story that extends over decades. This book has drive and excitement from first to last page.TVEDESTRANDSPOSTEN – Six out of six starsLahlum is skilled in the art of crime writing. The level of suspense is so high that it is hard to put the book down before you have finished reading. The author keeps the cards close to his chest, and managed to a number of times trick me into believing that I had found out who the kidnapper is. The high level of surprise when the answer was revealed was also a plus.FÆDRELANDSVENNENLahlum is an entertainer. I like his dramaturgy and writing, as well as the fact that he uses his knowledge about history in his stories.GUDBRANDSDØLEN DAGNINGEN

I’’VE HEARD IT’’S NICE THERE
Literature and Fiction2018 · 272 pp

I’’VE HEARD IT’’S NICE THERE

Tom Ingar Eliassen

A mother looks out for her son - who she has lost custody of. It's the Constitution Day Parade and she isn't sure which one of the parading schools he is with. An elderly gentleman occupies his days by riding up and down in a hotel elevator. Malin and Jim are visiting friends. Malin has learned to breathe with her stomach. Jim has finally decided to buy a punch-bag. 80's Country singer Christer Sjögren and boxer Steffen Tangstad lurk in the background. A man has fled from an accident, he tells his wife that he's in Italy. But with the help of a dead cat and a quiet moment in an abandoned tent, everything becomes so much better. These are just some of the many characters you'll meet in this powerful and diverse collection of short-stories.

I don´t quite know what it is
Literature and Fiction2018 · 208 pp

I don´t quite know what it is

Silje Bergum Kinsten

It feels weird. Everything is rocking. I lean forward and fall to the floor. This is the first reaction of the main character in the debut novel by Silje Bergum Kinsten, I don't quite know what it is. It happens on one of the first pages of the novel, suggesting that she might be suffering from ME, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Coffin Number Five
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2018 · 208 pp

Coffin Number Five

Gert Nygårdshaug

For six months following the brutal murder of his wife and daughter, Kripos investigator Skarphedin Olsen has believed he was his grandfather, Fredric Drum. Olsen has hallucinated about bog bodies, hunter dolls, giant moving statues, ancient written languages, and exquisite sauces. Now, he is 'cured.' When a headless corpse turns up in a doghouse on Oslo's west side, it quickly becomes clear that the special investigator will need all his resources as a declared healthy man. Because soon, another headless body appears. But so does Fredric Drum...

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Cock and Heart
Literature and Fiction2018 · 128 pp

Cock and Heart

Heidi-Anett Haugen

He holds me. I say: sometimes you look so good that I feel like throwing up. When? he says. Like when you on the way over here lifted that half dead cat from the street, to rather let it die in peace on the side of the road. He meows, growls, hisses and purrs and I rub up against his legs. He bites me softly on the neck. Try to pull me under the covers.Cock and Heart is a novel about naked love, feminism, art and hopeless romantics. It is not a story about when She met Him, or him, or him, not really. But what is it then? When She met Cock? When Cock met Heart?

Let´s never forget how good it feels to be alive
Literature and Fiction2018 · 80 pp

Let´s never forget how good it feels to be alive

Sarah Zahid

The debut of Sarah Zahid is the story of Norwegian Pakistani Sarah from Holmlia and Bjørndal. Poems about family life and coming of age. Poems about school and holidays. About a dawning life as a grownup. Poems from suburban streets and city streets. Popular culture and national culture. About norms, freedom and belonging. More is keeping us apart than holding us together, that is the general picture that the international news are feeding us these days. Sarah Zadid opposes this. Luckily. Without the poems ever becoming naive. They are rather multifarious and basically democratic.

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THE LOWLANDS
Literature and Fiction2018 · 272 pp

THE LOWLANDS

Wera Sæther

The lowlands is another name for the Indian subcontinent – as opposed to the highlands, the Himalayas, which rise up in a cultural collision behind them. In the lowlands they are flooded – figuratively and literally. Wera Sæther has travelled and lived in India for many years. This is a novel, but it is also Wera Sæther's story. Wera Sæther's story of travelling and living in India.

LEA’’S FACE
Literature and Fiction2018 · 256 pp

LEA’’S FACE

Peter Serck

This narrative takes place in Oslo's artistic environment in the 70s. Serck's sixteenth novel is a suggestive depiction of young love that offends conservative conventions and the merciless conditions of the art scene. A young aspring author falls in love with the somewhat older sculptor Lea, who is beautiful and charming, but also an alcoholic harbouring a death wish. All the while, his father strongly warns him against continuing the relationship.

Lilies from Jerusalem
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2018 · 256 pp

Lilies from Jerusalem

Gert Nygårdshaug

By the Dead Sea in Israel, a young Palestinian boy receives a very unwelcome visit. A car bomb explodes in a street in Oslo. Detective Skarphedin Olsen suddenly finds himself in the middle of a case that also involves a missing elderly man in the Old Town, an empty apartment with a pool of congealed blood on the floor, and cryptic books on alchemy. The investigator turns to his nephew, Fredric Drum, for help, drawing us into a fast-paced, fascinating crime mystery. The threads are relentlessly woven together toward a logical and highly surprising conclusion

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