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It Has To Be Done
Literature and Fiction2016 · 224 pp

It Has To Be Done

Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg

Since her very powerful debut novel Ingen skal høre hvor stille det er in 2010, Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg has been one of our most productive and critically acclaimed authors. She is often compared with Merethe Lindstrøm.The central event which drives the plot in her new novel Dette er helt nødvendig is a divorce. Daniel, a photographer, takes his two young daughters on a boat trip while he reflects on what really happened between him and his wife, Sonja. What drove her to end their marriage and their life together?During the trip he decides to break the agreement he has made with his ex-wife, to only have the daughters at sea with him for one single day. He takes the children further out to sea to go camping on a remote island, even though he knows there is a storm coming, putting their lives in grave danger. To his astonishment, Daniel realizes that a part of him welcomes this. But how far is he willing to go, gambling with his children's lives in order to get his revenge?In Dette er helt nødvendig, Kroneberg continues her intensive investigation of families.

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The Devil's Birthday
Literature and Fiction2016 · 440 pp

The Devil's Birthday

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

The selection in The Devils Birthday (Djevelens fødselsdag) show the width and originality of Ingvar Ambjørnsen´s short stories. Ambjørnsen´s short stories has by many critics been said to be some of his very best writing. This book was first published in 2006 and contain the collections Black Mother (Sorte mor, 1994), From Night to the Morning Darkness (Natt til mørk morgen, 1997) and Partially Present (Delvis til stede, 2003), as well as the title novel, The Devils Birthday. This new edition also contain a bonus track; The Red Dress. In Ambjørnsen´s short stories the feeling of melancholy and loneliness in the authorship comes out more clearly. We also meet, maybe surprisingly, an excellent nature writer. We also find great knowledge of the human mind, with precise dialogues and portraits of the characters. In several of the texts the playful and burlesque Ambjørnsen also let himself loose. This edition was published for Ingvar Ambjørnsens 60 year anniversary.

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You’re Not Dying
Literature and Fiction2016 · 184 pp

You’re Not Dying

Linn Strømsborg

Eva lives an apparently normal, recognisable and good life. As seen form the outside, there is no cause for concern. Then one day she has a panic attack on the bathroom floor. For no reason she can understand, fear enters her body. She avoids her usual company, preferring to sit in solitude in her room or run lap after solitary lap around the stadium at Bislett, strengthening her body, taking care of herself to avoid death. She could die at any time. People are dying all the time, without warning, at any age. So why not Eva?You're Not Dying is both a very small and an almost infinitely big novel – on how an often inexplicable and apparently needless anxiety can afflict us. It can make us avoid what we used to seek. We understand something basically horrible: Being ourselves does not happen automatically. We have to fight for it, usually while nobody is looking. But it is also a story of surviving the struggle, and of friends who don't stop calling even though you never ring back.(...) a hopeful book about anxiety.KLASSEKAMPENMaybe one could say that Strømsborgs authorship is moving in a more serious direction with this book, but there is still something unmistakably Strømsborgesque with this novel that portrays the circumstances of a no longer quite so young, anxious woman in an essentially questioning and wondering way, with a hint of misery, melancholy, a sense of lost time, life passing you by, while you're sitting alone in an empty room, like Demi Moore in St. Elmos Fire, just being scared.STAVANGER AFTENBLAD(...) a strong, beautiful and vivid novel.VÅRT LAND

An Even Greater Loneliness
Literature and Fiction2016 · 144 pp

An Even Greater Loneliness

Odd Klippenvåg

Finely tuned, intimate and surprising. Odd Klippenvåg doesn’t disappoint when he produces a collection of short stories.The common theme of the stories is human relationships as they play out in closely defined situations: the sister visiting her brother whom she has not seen for a long time; the man ordering flowers and champagne before leaving the office; or the pensioner sitting down to listen to classical music in the title story.The art of the short story at a high level.´Again, he convinces with his solid storytelling, to the point psychology and descriptions of the surroundings that amongst other things reflects about decay and dignity. ...All the texts are written with psychological intuition and empathy, and typically for the literary universe of Klippenvåg is the exploring of the borders where normality is put to test.´DAG OG TID´Finely tuned short story writing.´NORDNORSK MAGASIN´Klippenvåg convinces fully, and once more shows us his ability as a storyteller.´LOFOTPOSTEN

A Fifth Season
Mystery and Crime2016 · 576 pp

A Fifth Season

Torkil Damhaug

Ann, Victor, Helene and Nicolai are four young friends. They like trying things out, but their exploits don't always turn out well. One of the things they should not have done was to lock a classmate in the basement of a ruined riverside factory, where there had once been a nasty accident. Soon after, two of the four youngsters are found dead, and the third has disappeared.A Fifth Season is a psychological thriller which brings the reader close to both victims and perpetrators. It is a crime novel where the reader has the opportunity to follow the investigation of abduction and murder. What happened? Who is guilty?‘Torkil Damhaug is a crime writer who is unusually assured in his form; I am unaware of any other writer who can invoke the way in which desperation lies in wait in the most everyday situations in quite the way that he does.’ VG‘Damhaug is a fantastic story­teller, who painstakingly unravels his well­composed narrative. Through dialogue, shifts in perspective and a broad spectrum of minor figures, his characters are depicted as a consequence of suppression, conflict and failure. The book is structured as a crime novel, but is also a masterfully constructed study of young people's environment in the most precariously emotional time of anyone's life, where anything can happen, for better or (in this case) worse. This book could be described as rural Norwegian crime writing with a high degree of literary ambition.’ DAGBLADET

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The Last Days
Literature and Fiction2016 · 304 pp

The Last Days

Ole Kristian Ellingsen

The main character in Endetid is a priest. When his only daughter is raped and killed, at first he finds little comfort and help in the faith and the hope he has given to others.When the perpetrator flees into hiding in his homeland, the father is provoked by the powerlessness and passivity of the police and the authorities. This eventually leads him to defy the lack of extradition agreements and to take it upon himself to punish the crime which has been committed against his daughter. 'A good, powerful and memorable novel.'BOKELSKERINNEN

The Only One
Literature and Fiction2016 · 192 pp

The Only One

Silje Aanes Fagerlund

Eneste is a novel about love – the first great love in the life of a young woman, the 'I' narrator who addresses a 'you' she both reapproaches and distances herself from in the same movement. The narration begins when the relationship is over. Who were these two, together and separately, and who is she now, without him? The necessity of separation and breaking free is examined in testing and intense language, and the process of breaking free continues after the actual separation, after the painful end, after it is all over.

One Small Step for Man
Literature and Fiction2016 · 96 pp

One Small Step for Man

Rune F. Hjemås

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. So we can just imagine how much a thousand words are worth.In Rune Hjemås’ Et lite steg for mennesket, Fotografier (1985–2018), we see the world through a literary camera lens which moves from Beograd to Pyongyang, from Oslo to Trondheim. Mostly random people are photographed, either in the centres of their own vital existences or on the edges of something bigger and more life-threatening.This apparently atomised collection of short texts gradually weaves a whole pattern of impressions and feelings which brings you nearer to yourself and others, nearer your surroundings and the surroundings’ surroundings, not unlike the feeling of browsing through a good old-fashioned, patiently compiled photo album.

Fumblers
Literature and Fiction2016 · 192 pp

Fumblers

Ane Nydal

Ane Nydal has long been part of the literary scene, both as a reviewer and as an essayist. Now at last she is making her debut as an author. In her anthology of short stories, Famlere, we meet people who are trying to sort out their lives. We follow them as they try to live more healthily, to set boundaries and to belong. Whether it is the friendship between a homeless girl and a policeman, a rootless American in Israel, unconventional gender roles or questions of guilt and atonement, Ane Nydal shows mastery of wide ranges of theme and style

Emma & Johannes
UpLit2016 · 256 pp

Emma & Johannes

Inger Harriet Hegstad

Et inderlig familiedrama.Drømmer og lengsler – ubrytelige bånd …Emma Dal er sytten år og forelsket i barndomsvennen Olav. Moren synes ikke han er den rette, og vil at Emma skal flytte til tanten i Kristiansund for å gå i lære hos henne. Selv trives Emma aller best når hun kan være med faren ut i båten, eller hun kan stikke seg bort med skisseboken. Da en fremmed kunstmaler flytter til øya, får drømmen hennes om en dag å bli malerinne ny næring. – Jeg forstår ikke hva han er ute etter. Karen smelte igjen ovnsdøren. – Så du ikke hvordan han så på Emma? – Nei, det så jeg ikke, svarte Peder oppgitt. – Hvorfor tar du alltid alt i verste mening? – Det gjør jeg vel ikke, men denne karen er det noe ved som ikke tåler dagens lys. Du skal sanne mine ord. Kunstner! snøftet hun. – Det kan vel alle kalle seg.Averøya 1911

Delight and Danger
Literature and Fiction2016 · 224 pp

Delight and Danger

Vigdis Hjorth

All passionate reading is unbreakably linked to the readers mind, finding what the reader has a need for to survive and understand more of themselves and the world, no less. Vigdis Hjorth says this in the foreword to this collection of essays, where she discusses books and authors that have had great meaning to her. The authors she writes about are Bertholt Brecht, Tove Ditlevsen, Knut Hamsun, Søren Kirkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Dag Solstad, Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen and Witold Gombrowicz. Vigdis Hjorth has open and brave opinions about literature and the relationship between life and writing, looking for the great questions in her writing. Vigdis Hjorth has made a selection of good articles that she has written about literature in this book, showing that a warm, cultivated and enthusiastic human can give life and inspiration to learning in a way that machines could never copy. This is a book that takes time to read, but not because it is thick or too full of words. This is because you from time to time have to put the book down and think for a while, have some discussions with yourself about one subject or another. And after winning the discussion, brilliantly of course, you can pick the book back up and let yourself be taken further into literature, with Vigdis Hjorth as your good and wise guide.Odd W. Surén - DAG OG TID When I read Delight and Danger, I want to write more like Vigdis Hjorth. This book is an inspiring addition to the everlasting discussion about the role of literature. Toril Moi - MORGENBLADET Open, thoughtful and elegant. Vigdis Hjorth knows the art of seducing the reader without ever loosing the seriousness out of sight. The result is eleven very good texts about life and literature. Hjorth is concerned with freedom and responsibility, and in her essay about Søren Kirkegaard she weaves her personal experiences together with philosophical insight about daring to live you life outside the pressure of conformity. Vigdis Hjort´s life and literature is in this way an example to look to. The essay collection Delight and Danger remind us that literature in one way or another has to matter to the reader, if it aims at being relevant and interesting. Gro Jørstad Nilsen - BERGENS TIDENDE Essays without affectationExemplary presentation of writers.Olav Løkken Reisop - DAGBLADET Blissfully seriousThis essay collection gives good insight into Vigdis Hjorths many passionate literary relationships. The essays shows an author who has a wide register to choose from, and where the erotic is far from supreme, but jus one of many human fields that can be used to enlighten life and understanding more of the self. Turid Larsen - DAGSAVISEN

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Her Lying Face
Literature and Fiction2016 · 304 pp

Her Lying Face

Selma Lønning Aarø

In Kristiania in April 1897, the newspapers Morgenbladet and Verdens Gang announced that Knut Hamsun had reported Mrs. Anna Munch to the police and asked that her mental state be investigated. That spring, several anonymous letters slandering Hamsun had appeared in Kristiania.Hamsun was convinced that the letters had been written by the authoress Anna Munch, who was married to Edvard Munch's cousin, Peter Anker Ragnvald Munch. Anna Munch and Knut Hamsun first met during his lecture tour in 1891, when he went on the offensive against Ibsen and others. To put it mildly, she was entranced. She began to follow him, even to Paris, and on several occasions she booked in to the same lodgings as he had. She constantly sent him letters, to which she eventually received no replies. In other words, she was a good old-fashioned ‘stalker.' The police were not sure that Anna Munch had written the letters. For a while they even wondered whether Hamsun had written them himself.This epistolary mystery is the starting point for Selma Lønning Aarø's artistic novel, which brings a forgotten author to life and, not least, says something about the major struggle female authors had to be seen and heard.The author has made some amazing biographical discoveries which help to cast light on the most highly debated author in Norwegian history, Knut Hamsun. 'Selma Lønning Aarø’s latest novel has the potential to reach a vast audience and it will leave them shaken, moved and enligthened.' DAGBLADET 'Selma Lønning Aarø really knows how to wield a story. Here Anna Munch emerges from oblivion in a manner that can only be described as spellbinding … beautifully written and skilfully composed.'VG 'There is a lot to like about this novel. It is well told and excellently documented.'VÅRT LAND 'Selma Lønning Aarø has written one of the autumn’s most interesting novels, with life as it is really lived at its core. … the result is an amazingly artistic portrait.' STAVANGER AFTENBLAD'It’s amazing how Aarø fuses fact and fiction.' BERGENS TIDENDE 'Hennes løgnaktige ytre is a historical novel worth reading, about attraction, the life of an artist, madness and family.' DAGSAVISEN 'In Hennes løgnaktige ytre, Selma Lønning Aarø uses sparse documentation to create an exciting and well constructed historical novel.' DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV 'Hennes løgnaktige ytre is a really interesting novel.'KLASSEKAMPEN