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Terrain
Literature and Fiction2024 · 208 pp

Terrain

Vegard Sæteren

ARE YOU TIRED? ARE YOU ALONE? DO YOU NEED FRESH AIR AND COMPANY? MEET AT THE TENNIS CENTRE NEXT WEDNESDAY AT SEVEN! WEAR GOOD SHOES! YOU ARE VALUABLE! WE NEED YOU! JOIN THE CONVOY! This is the advertisement at the beginning of Vegard Sæteren’s new novel Terrain. A novel about vulnerable people who have been promised that if they just comply, if they just come together and do what Oggy (the leader) says, they will, somewhere out there, find goodness, find community, find meaning and abundance. But who can really promise such a thing? And won’t we be there soon? Terrain follows a handful of somewhat tired, somewhat lonely people in a convoy into a desolate landscape. How do you think it will play out? Terrain is a short novel about what might be the biggest question of all: the meaning of existence in each and every one of us.

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The Mist Murder
Mystery and Crime2024 · 368 pp

The Mist Murder

Hans Olav Lahlum

The Mist Murder has, in the Sherlockian spirit of Hans Olav Lahlum, a subtle plot in a fashionable seventies colour palette with links to a long-unsolved murder. “Firstly, I owe it to you to let you know that I was a national socialist during the war,” said the man sitting in the guest chair in my office. The date is 16 November 1973. In his office in Oslo, private investigator K2 is sought out by a farmer who has travelled all the way from Telemark. The client says that for important personal reasons he needs to clear up the circumstances surrounding his brother’s dramatic death in the late autumn of 1943. The private investigator allows himself to be tempted by this lucrative challenge and travels to Telemark the same evening. There, he stays in the house where his client’s older brother, a front fighter recently returned home, was found shot one misty autumn day thirty years previously. The house, the client and his family history make a fascinating and sometimes unsettling impression. In the strange local community, K2 discovers that events from the war years still cast long shadows over the lives of both young and older people. Patricia is far away at home in Oslo, but K2 soon realises that he will need her help to clear up an old murder mystery that he is finding increasingly confusing and disturbing…

The Bog Queen
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2024 · 136 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Bog Queen

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown

In the final chapter of The Undercities serie, Peter finds himself caught between two worlds – the one above ground, and the one below. As the Bog Queen awakens, determined to reclaim her lost power, Peter, the last earth singer, realizes he is the only one who can stop her. But to succeed, he must rely on allies from both worlds, testing his courage and loyalty to the limit. The fate of both the human and magical worlds rests on Peter’s shoulders in an intense showdown that brings the series to a breathtaking conclusion. The final book in the critically acclaimed The Underground City trilogy. «... a successfully completed, modern fairy-tale based on Norwegian culture, with a certain international flavor, and a lot of Hollywood.»SERIENETT.NO

Underplayed
Literature and Fiction2024 · 176 pp

Underplayed

Kristian Hegertun

Underplayed is an existential novel about working within a bigger system, where certain questions should neither be asked nor answered. “The Thorsen-case, as it had become known, was something like a joke to the rest of them, a funny thing they occasionally referenced. To me it was the only case. My case. Just like every bureaucrat at some point encounters a case that shape their career as a civil servant, more than any other.” Johan reluctantly applies for the senior consultant position at the Ministry of Defence and gets the job. He soon realises that the rules and moods on the inside of the ministry is quite different to how outsiders might imagine it. Shortly after his employment, the inexperienced bureaucrat receives what initially appears to be an innocuous email from a Norwegian soldier, previously stationed abroad. Ministry of Defence shrug at the case, and it is dismissed with professional silence, but the probable, and uncomfortable, truth of the matter, continues to haunt Johan Berg. The devil is, as we know, in the details, and the details of this email both dig at and point towards a bigger issue: Norway’s role in warfare, how we depict history and the issue of the state’s responsibility. For Johan, the email’s contents, and its consequences, come to form a crucial illustration of the relationship between the individual and the state, our own personal histories, and history with a capital H.

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Vestersand
Literature and Fiction2024 · 528 pp

Vestersand

Ingeborg Arvola

What use is shame when he’s in it with me? The year is 1862. Brita Caisa is released from prison in Pykeijä. Heavily pregnant, she trudges through the driving snow, unsure of where to go. Her boyfriend, Mikko, is still serving time for their scandalous cohabitation. He still doesn’t know that Brita Caisa is carrying their child. She dreams of a tømmerpirtti, a log cabin, where she, Mikko and their children can live as a family, but there will be many obstacles on the road to making this home a reality. Vestersand, the second book in the series Ruijan Rannalla – Songs from the Arctic Ocean, takes us to Neiden and Pykeijä, to whaling and log-cabin building, to snow and saunas, to fatal jealousy and deep love. It is an epic and dramatic tale from a unique environment that is rarely described in other literature – the surprisingly diverse Northern Norway of the nineteenth century, where Sámi, Kvens and Norwegians lived side by side with their languages and customs. REVIEWS A lush place between [García] Márquez and Sandemo«Many had a great reading experience with the first book, and they won’t be disappointed with this one. […] wonderful descriptions of nature, the labour and the community of the every day, descriptions which elevate the story, make it bigger than itself.»Adresseavisen, five/six stars «Vestersand will thrill both old and new readers.»Stavanger Aftenblad, five/six stars «… captivating from the first page. […] the language is so visual that I’m left with images in my head, as if I’ve seen a documentary.»Vårt Land Piping hot by the Arctic Ocean«Arvola exercises her literary abilities in subtle, beautiful descriptions of the strenuous working life, of the everyday life, peppered with fierce bursts of passion. […] There is a lot of cultural history to enjoy here.» Dagsavisen «Thumbs up to an author who describes people in our near past who deserves literature’s spotlight.»NRK

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When the wind rises
UpLit2024 · 352 pp

When the wind rises

Elisabeth Hammer

In 1807, a storm is brewing in the Norwegian-Danish kingdom. But far from the centre of action, in the charming coastal town of Christiansand south in Norway, life goes on as normal for servants and nobility alike. A soft breeze is blowing in from the harbour, the streets are filled with life, and in the market there is haggling over goods from far and wide. Gentlemen wander about in top hats, fine ladies coyly avert their gazes, busy maids scurry from one errand to another, and playful boys run between stalls. As evening comes and darkness descends, a stately carriage with four magnificent horses rolls through the town. Inside sits a distraught young woman. Her whole life is based on a lie. Amalie Gren is now taken to her new guardian, the powerful Mr. Gyllenmark. He will say nothing about her past, but demands her absolute obedience when he marries her off. Among the town's well-kept bachelors, Amalie meets again the handsome, but very condescending, Mr. Wickfall. Then the better option, surely, is the charismatic Captain Sjaaland, who likes her for who she is? But how well does she really know either them? It soon turns out that several of Amalie's new acquaintances have a hidden agenda - and that cynical power plays take place behind closed doors...

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Winter Hearts
UpLit2024 · 352 pp

Winter Hearts

Elisabeth Hammer

Christmas is approaching, and snow blankets the little coastal town of Christiansand. The holiday calm spreads through the streets, but not to the young Miss Amalie Gren. Inside her, a storm is brewing. She was completely caught off guard by the proposal from Captain Sjaaland, but before she was able to give him her answer, the powerful Mrs. Gyllenmaark told him yes on her behalf! The Captain is certainly handsome and charming, but Amalie wants to follow her heart – and she is full of doubt. In the serving girl Marte’s heart, however, there is no doubt. She knows who she loves, but she cannot have him. Jacob is the son of the Lord she works for, and far above her station. If the two were caught together, Marte could lose her job and her family would starve. Then, without a word, Jacob goes to Copenhagen to enlist in the army. The temptation is gone, but Marte misses him dearly and she fears from his life. Especially now, that the Napoleonic Wars are ravaging the continent, and the consequences increasingly impact the Danish-Norwegian Kingdom.

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Virvel Street
Literature and Fiction2024 · 160 pp

Virvel Street

Rannveig Fern Leite Molven

A mother is left behind in pieces. She has lost her four-year-old daughter, who stopped breathing one night, without warning. The loss happened many years ago now, and the woman has since had another daughter. Virvel Street is about grief, and about what it means for a child to grow up around such profound loss. How should parents manage their own grief, while at the same time show their new child that they love them? Virvel Street stirs up powerful feelings in the reader. Blunt and brutal in her depictions of grief and loss, Molven writes about how grief can change a person over time, and the ripple effect it has on the people around them.

Wilted Poems
Literature and Fiction2024 · 544 pp

Wilted Poems

Stig Aasvik

Stig Aasvik’s Wilted Poems is a continuation of the autofictional series begun with The Lofoten Wall in 2017. The Lofoten Wall refers to a steep mountain range, rising from the Vestfjord, which, when viewed from a distance, looks like a single wall. Each novel in the series is its own metaphorical mountain, but together they can be understood as something like a wall of books. The literary geography is real, but still takes on a dreamlike and mythic quality, becoming a metaphor for the protagonist’s Lofoten-born father. Each book, or mountain, is about parents and upbringing, warmth and irreconcilable memories, about everyday life as an author, class mobility, dreams of becoming an artist, about life as a partner, as a father, as a son, about joy and dissatisfaction, light and dark, reading and writing, money and anxiety. We are in the protagonist’s head, in his consciousness, the stream is opened, then closed, fragmented and frayed, thoughts, dreams, desires, all of it, woven into an urgent flow of words and sentences. We slip elegantly between different versions of the novelist. Stretches and moods change and time flows in streams, just like the narrative, branching off, at once incidental and careful.

Xiania 2 - Ada
Literature and Fiction2024 · 352 pp

Xiania 2 - Ada

Lotta Elstad

Ada is born around 1880. There is no birth certificate. Her father is a fisherman and gambler. Her mother is absent and almost always pregnant. Most of her children die, and she herself dies in labor when Ada is fifteen. Ada is the lone witness to this brutal event, and the one who has to deliver her bloodied, orphaned little brother. Soon after, her father loses Ada's hand in a card game. On her honeymoon, she runs away and flees to Xiania. She finds lodging and works as a cleaning lady at an “establishment”, fronted by a delicatessen, and run by a certain Madame Josefine. Ada begins to kick prostitutes in the stomach as an abortion method. Her services are high in demand. This is the start of a journey that ends with Ada inheriting the delicatessen, getting rid of the anchovy smell and taking the alias Madam Zavarella. She opens a hat shop on the ground floor – and an abortion clinic in the basement. The story ends in 1923, when a young girl, Klara, knocks her door. Xiania 2: Ada is a raw tale of a run-down part of town, of life and death, of drinking and sex, of women’s health and abortion, of underpaid drudges and colourful procuresses, thieves, smugglers and circus folk. «Lotta Elstad balances well here, between serious political morals and playful entertainment. [...] It breathes and thumps, and sizzles and smells – of Elstad's Kristiania.»Dagsavisen «There's not a lot of fun in the Xiania series, but Lotta Elstad can certainly write.»Stavanger aftenblad, five/six stars

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Arriving at Something Real
Literature and Fiction2023 · 144 pp

Arriving at Something Real

Magnus Aasdalen

Arriving at Something Real is a collection of psycho-social portraits of humans on the edge of society, of the ‘’real’’ and of language. The well-known feels strange and fake, while the unspeakable and the metaphysical feels close. At the same time many of the short stories are set in specific, physical places: In Skien, in a house in Hokksund, in a strip club in Trondheim or on a pedestrian crossing in Majorstuen in Oslo.

Nuclear Dreams
Literature and Fiction2023 · 208 pp

Nuclear Dreams

Didrik Dyrdal

The men in the short story collection Nuclear Dreams all struggle with difficult emotions, their relationships to other humans and their ability to lead a normal life. What happens when they have to handle unexpected situations, consider emotions they previously ignored and their own expectations for themselves? The modern masculinity is explored from many angles in this stylistically confident debut. The career-focused Olav takes his hunt for success, health, and women too far. The social research manager Øyvind is anxious about the storages of nuclear rockets which he fears will extinguish everything and everyone he cares about. Magne, a father of young children, is unable to bear the guilt of what happened to his best friend when they were younger.