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There are limits to what I can not understand
Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

There are limits to what I can not understand

Beate Grimsrud

Throughout the writing of Beate Grimsrud, from her debut in 1990 to the novel Children of Eternity (Evighetsbarna), we find many original and thought provoking quotes and sentences mirroring the author´s way of being in the world. Some of them reflecting, others challenging for the mind and others again are funny. This selection is characterized by her very distinct wisdom of life, like for example: "She is beautiful, about as beautiful as me. But on her is shows much better." "Silence sounds the same in all languages." "I fold my hands and pray: Please God, don´t let me become religious."

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The Ninth Principle
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2017 · 240 pp

The Ninth Principle

Gert Nygårdshaug

Fredric Drum is in Egypt. For seemingly no reason at all, he is entangled in a mystery that threatens to drive him out of his mind. It becomes a life-and-death drama revolving around ancient history, the Great Pyramid of Giza (Khufu), mummies, and inexplicable murders. A classic Nygårdshaug novel, packed with mystery, exotic lore, and suspense until the very last page.

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The Ocean is already here
Literature and Fiction2017 · 60 pp

The Ocean is already here

Casper André Lugg

No one captures the greatness in the moment like Casper André Lugg. In his new collection he exceeds himself once more. A bird stopping in its flight over the moor, the thought of the flame burning over the apostles heads - the poems fold themselves out in the tension between open experiences in the world here and now, and the little faith that can become so tremendous for the reader.

You Decide That This Is A Memory
Literature and Fiction2017 · 128 pp

You Decide That This Is A Memory

Marianne Teie

Marianne Teie debuts with a poetic depth dive into part of Norway's history. Martinus Mathisen lives in Lillehammer a hundred years ago, and the poems in this collection depict his life. This is a life characterized by deprivation, grief and loss – but also by solidarity and closeness. Much of what Martinus struggles with, is foreign to us. A hundred years ago, Norwegians had to face the death of children, tuberculosis, and a longing for America, the land where everything could be better. Marianne Teie takes us into this foreign world, while at the same time, her poems also point out the similarities between all humans, regardless of time and space.

The Codex of Death
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2017 · 224 pp

The Codex of Death

Gert Nygårdshaug

Gert Nygårdshaug's food- and wine-loving hero, Fredric Drum, finds himself in Italy this time around. Commissioned by the University of Rome, he is tasked with deciphering an ancient Greek text. But suddenly he is entangled in a life-and-death drama whose ingredients include ancient philosophy, the Dark Ages, and a cynical, invisible killer who leaves his victims with no signs of external trauma. A quintessential Nygårdshaug novel, packed with mystery, exotic lore, and suspense from the first page to the last

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Love me tomorrow
Literature and Fiction2017 · 240 pp

Love me tomorrow

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Love me Tomorrow is both tender-hearted and dark; a humoristic novel about loves ability to change us. At least in theory. In the fourth book about Elling, he once again has trouble with reality. But now he is looking for love. The focus of his attention is supposedly named Elise. She works in a hot dog stand and love to read books about UFO-phenomenon. Kjell Bjarne, Ellings estranged friend, knows very little about UFO´s but a lot about women. He is now a responsible stepfather, living with Reidun, and has a job as a bottle sorter. Elling on the other hand has let things slide for a while. But now that Elise is in the picture, Kjell Bjarne might get back in his good favour again. A suitor needs all the backing he can get. Ingvar Ambjørnsen won the Riksmålsprisen Award for this book in 1999.Reviews: “Absolutely on par with the first three”, “screamingly funny – with serious undertones.” DAGBLADET “I insist that this is significant literature.” NRK P2 KULTURNYTT “This is strong stuff.” ADRESSEAVISEN A new hit for Ambjørnsen “Ambjørnsen surprises once more; Ambjørnsen is a significant author. Love me tomorrow is a gloomier tale than its predecessors. From early in the plot, the reader is drawn into dark premonitions… It is the use of contrasting underlays of grief and pain that enables Ambjørnsen to create great comedy.” AFTENPOSTEN Screamingly funny – with serious undertones. “It so happened that I was high above the Skagerrak when Elling stepped into my life for the fourth time. Perhaps that wasn’t the smartest choice of location for our rendezvous. When, with no apparent provocation, a passenger starts to shake and laugh so hard that beer glasses and coffee cups end up on the floor, it quite reasonably attracts a certain amount of attention from their fellow-travellers. Well, I’ll just have to live with that, and deep down I think I’m a lucky person to be able to sit on a plane working and having such fun that I lose track of both time and place. Because Ambjørnsen has done it again. It’s impossible to fathom what that man can wring out of just one person and one central idea. There’s nothing for it but to give in and declare that Love me tomorrow is absolutely on a par with the first three Elling books.” DAGBLADET “A new hit about strange, crazy, loveable, lonely Elling… It’s far from unlikely that these books will endure as central works in Norwegian fiction of the 1990s.” BERGENS TIDENDE

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End Home
Literature and Fiction2017 · 72 pp

End Home

Eivind Sudmann

A man loses his girlfriend and children in a car accident. He is left alone in a house where everything reminds him of them. Sometimes he can see them so clearly that he doesn't know what to believe. But what happens when they stop appearing? Endehjem is a beautiful and philosophical collection of poems about love, loneliness and memory.

Erotica
Literature and Fiction2017 · 112 pp

Erotica

Inger Wold Lund

What is Erotica? What do we actually mean when we say that something is «erotic»? If we simply agree — in a servile way — to all that we are presented with in the media, these questions would seem easy to answer. Erotic images are around us all the time. Inger Wold Lund chooses a different approach, however. Through a series of dialogues, most of them a page or two long, individual episodes unfold. And as they do, our preconceptions about the erotic are challenged or expanded upon in surprising ways. Some of Lund's texts are decidedly sensual. Others are comical and even border on slapstick. Although Erotica is inspired be classics from the erotic canon, it is undoubtedly a singular work, with its own vision and scope. Throughout the collection, Lund displays a keen ear for language and an eye for how small events loom large in the most intimate of moments. Erotica is also a book about experience and memory. Lund finds remnants of the past everywhere, in an abandoned house, in an old pair of pants or in fingermarks in the fog on a car window. She shows us that erotica can be so much more than depictions of wild and unrestrained sex. Rather than writing about erect penises penetrating voluptuous vaginas, these texts mirror those situations where these elements might be present, but where the literary attention is given to the actions that take part before, under and after. Eroticas special angle to sexuality make the book a special and longed for read. If you are one of those who have given up on erotica, you should give the genre a new chance. And it should start here. FÆDRELANDSVENNEN In Erotica, Inger Wold Lund asks what the erotic is and can be, liberating the reader from given expectations of what it might be. She gives the reader the possibility to experience the erotic again, in life as in literature. At the same time the book guides us into the writing and art of Inger Wold Lund.BLA Enticing, humoristic and surprising - Indeed you can write well about erotica!KK

Talking Shop
Literature and Fiction2017 · 128 pp

Talking Shop

Flu Hartberg

Flu Hartberg's vivid drawings have elicited praise from people from all walks of life, from your average newspaper readers to the cultural elite. Talking Shop: Outside the Box is a collection of some of Hartberg's best comics, but also includes new material. The drawings range from the comical to the more reflective, from pure satire to cunning hits. A perfect gift for people, animals and aliens of all ages.

Your Family
Literature and Fiction2017 · 184 pp

Your Family

Nora Kristina Eide

A young woman finds new parents online. A little girl gets lost in the store, and when called upon, her father insists that she is not his child. An actor is hired to act an older brother that has been lost. A man catfishes adoptees looking for their families. Three siblings play house. Everywhere we look there are family relations, no matter who we are, we all come from a family, or something that was or could have been one. In Your Family, Nora Eide writes her way into family relations in all matters of the word. Like a dentist poking around teeth to find rot, Eide poke around in known and unknown familyrelations to find the actual bindings between us, and what it takes to unleash them. The short stories, texts and points that builds Eides debut is sometimes hurtfull, sometimes funny, but all the time though provoking portraits of family ties and human loneliness, that even in the warmest embraces appear to go hand in hand."While the stories vary in style and length, they are bound together by the authors ability to describe Norwegian everyday life with clinical precision. (...) The result is almost hyper realistic, even if the situations that are described borders on believable. (...) Your family is an unusually solid publication. It gives a precise description of our vision of blood and water, and every time you laugh, it hurts a tiny bit."DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV"Eide succeed in saying something significantly about the role of the family ... and she does it with originality, passion and precision."DAG OG TID "Thought provoking variations on the topic of family, community, belonging and loneliness ... The collection is soberly and consequently executed, where many of the texts are closing up on the topic from unexpected angles, with surprising twists, leaving the reader in thoughtfulness."Five out of six stars! STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Farewell to All That
Literature and Fiction2017 · 512 pp

Farewell to All That

Sondre Midthun

This is the stand alone sequel to Sondre Midthun’s critically-acclaimed début novel Don´t ever come closer. The main character is living in secret in Malangen, where he grew up. Here, he stands face to face with his childhood memories, the village and not least himself.Farewell to all that is an intense, clever, sad, but sometimes also surprisingly funny novel, full of human relationships and existential reflection."Sondre Midthuns new novel is an ambitious and thought-provoking tale of lies and dissimulation."VG"It is an interesting and agonizing read: The life of the protagonist is a monstrous echo chamber, where everything confirms his twisted ideas. Midthun creates scenes and dialogues swinging from the witty to the grotesque. With ´Farewell to all that´, Midthun proves - again - to be a sharp-sighted portrayer of human mechanisms, of blemishes, scars and fears."DAGBLADET "An intense and believable psychological portrait of a young mans journey towards the abyss, with a certain lash in the often awkward dialogues and embarrassing every day conflicts."STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Four Days in Berlin
Literature and Fiction2017 · 200 pp

Four Days in Berlin

Audun Mortensen

One day in February of 2017, the 31-year-old writer Audun return to Berlin to visit the 30-year-old programmer Martin, with whom he shared an apartment 7 years ago. Martin makes good money and is soon to move in with his girlfriend. But he is experiencing an increasingly greater discomfort with living in a class society, in one of the most free countries in the world, with less and less room for anything but working to get paid. This conflict in feelings leads the former roommates into a hushed state of flux, a conversation full of inns and outs, about life during and beyond capitalism.