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Hard Times for Gentlemen
Literature and Fiction2015 · 240 pp

Hard Times for Gentlemen

Aksel Fugelli

Tøffe tider for gentlemen is a skittish humorous book set in Bergen in the 1990's. A young man comes to the town to turn over a new leaf. His plans extend no further than to knock on the door of the only girl he knows. Then chance and fortune takes over. This is a book about people finding each other and losing each other, enjoying magic moments together but not knowing if they really want these moments to lead to anything. The main character opts to talk about everything he thinks is funny or strange, but all the short stories make up a longer story which is also about vulnerability and loneliness, possibly without the narrator fully understanding that himself.

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When the Moon Is Right
Literature and Fiction2015 · 72 pp

When the Moon Is Right

Annabelle Despard

Despard writes distinctively with leaps that lead to surprising comparisons, and a perspective that is playful and sharp. Balanced with a certain solemnity, she conveys strong emotions in a convincing way. In the United Kingdom, her poem Should I Die First was named one of the 50 best love poems published in the last 50 years. This collection also has beautiful and powerful poems about love and sorrow.

The Road to Mecca
Literature and Fiction2015 · 176 pp

The Road to Mecca

Kristian Klausen

The narrator in this novel has long been fascinated by the unexpressed artistic aspect of Islam. He wants to portray the life of The Prophet Mohammed in a series of oil-paintings, a project which would be a violation of the Islamic ban on creating images. We follow his progress through several notable projects, including a series of portraits of terrorists and mass murderers, before he has the idea of the Mohammed exhibition. On the way (to Mecca), his fate is interwoven with other artists, alive and dead. ''The Road to Mecca’ is easy to read, with many sparkling stories and imaginative use of text.'DRAMMENS TIDENDE

We Welcome You
Literature and Fiction2015 · 240 pp

We Welcome You

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo

How to grieve in the shadow of a national grief? In We Welcome You meet Arild and Sella, who each in their own way are coming to terms with having lost a son in a ferry accident. That was eight years ago, but after 22nd July 2011 their grief is reawakened. This is a novel about the people on the fringes of the national catastrophe who are still drawn into its emotional undercurrent. It is also a love story about two people compelled to make the choices which keep them alive. ‘Evjemo’s writing is brilliant, unpretentious, precise and nuanced. He describes the space between people. The distance. The silent sorrow. The loneliness. The despair. And he has the unique ability to do this subtly, using props with which we are all familiar ... But he also writes about love, unity and a sense of belonging. It's real. It’s important. And it is penned by an author who would appear to be one of the best that Norwegian contemporary literature has to offer.’ADRESSEAVISEN ‘Everything that was unclear or completely overlooked before is suddenly laid out. Details that you didn’t notice before suddenly become not only visible, but charged with meaning ... He has a unique way of looking at the everyday occurrences, practical details and past events that dominate our lives.’DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ‘Velkommen til oss doesn’t have any dramatic twists and turns, clichés or caricatures. This is an unassuming novel about loss and grief, and a novel which could easily be read more than once.’KK ‘One seldom encounters such accomplished writing. Every sentence vibrates with aesthetic delight and existential solemnity.’BERGENS TIDENDE ‘Evjemo has made several successful attempts to counteract everyday triviality with compositional originality. He writes lyrical, thoughtful passages and allows his characters to enter a monastery or be part of a tragicomic amateur theatre production without giving into the temptation to make fun.’DAGBLADET ‘The sorrow is well presented from a clever perspective, and there is not a line too many.’TRØNDER-AVISA‘I am a great admirer of Evjemo’s empathetic and cinematic bird’s-eye view and I hope that he goes on to write many more books.’VG‘... a considerate and precautionary depiction of people burdened by sorrow, a sorrow that, if it does not completely paralyse them, will change the way in which they relate to each other and themselves. Based on the traumatic events of 22 July on Utøya and in the centre of Oslo, Hofstad Evjemo paints a gentle and sensitive picture of what the trauma that we all feel to varying degrees has done to a few individuals and families – those closest to the victims. He does this indirectly and with the greatest discretion.’STAVANGER AFTENBLAD‘... Evjemo is careful with such opportunities, and the result is a sober text, cleverly written in pure style by an author who is able to put themselves in someone else’s shoes and see things from their usually so inaccessible perspective, and he is successful in this without resorting to shortcuts, constructions or flirting with the reader.’DAG OG TID

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We who are Dead
Literature and Fiction2015 · 56 pp

We who are Dead

Karin Fossum

Karin Fossum is best known as a crime writer, but she made her literary debut with poetry. In 2013 she published the poetry collection Natten er et annet land (”Night is a Different Country”).Vi som er døde (”We who are Dead”) describes life's struggles and reflects about the different starting-points which become parts of a person. In the title poem we are followed right through till after death. ”But the dark night is oursWhen we weigh nothing;Then we rise upFrom the grave,Flicker around in the darkAnd blink like cometsUnyokedAbove the fields.”

Volume
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2015 · 104 pp

Volume

Pedro Carmona-Alvarez / Aslak Dørum / Lars Elling / Liv Eirill Evensen / Tania Kjeldset / Hans Petter Laberg / Stein Erik Lunde / Arne Svingen / Frida Ånnevik

A second later I am filled with a tremendous sound that reverberates from my very core. Then I rise up. Not far, just a few centimetres above the stage, but enough to feel as if I am flying. It is a wonderful feeling. I close my eyes and just hang there. I know that as long as I hold this note, everything will be fine. And that as long as I hold this note, I will be happy. Nine authors who are also musicians, or nine musicians who also write. Nine short stories about how music can change a situation and a person. About how notes can make you soar, how the sound of a piano can make you do something new, about how difficult it is to find the right words. About all of the memories captured in music, about all the joy, heartaches and dreams. And about impossibilities that suddenly become reality, just because music exists. And people who love music. Meet Pedro Carmona Alvarez, Aslak Dørum, Lars Elling, Liv Eirill Evensen, Tania Kjeldset, Hans Petter Laberg, Stein Erik Lunde, Arne Svingen and Frida Ånnevik.

High Value Voodoo
Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2015 · 256 pp

High Value Voodoo

Knut Nærum

A curse stretching from the Caribbean Sea to the wealthiest Western districts of Oslo. A story of Norwegian business life, based on exploitation, flagellation and other perversions. A dead man who refuses to stay in the grave. An act of revenge from the other side. An apparently impossible murder. A recrimination from the departed. These are some of the ingredients of Knut Nærum's murder mystery where high value Voodoo, We renew acquaintance with private investigator Oberon Qvist and his Watson, crime-writer Kjell Nilsen.

19 POISONINGS
Literature and Fiction2014 · 72 pp

19 POISONINGS

Nils Christian Moe-Repstad

Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad’s new collection of poetry is about poisonings in the broadest sense – about plagues, infections and pesticides, but also about pollution, political corruption and financial exploitation. The poems make great leaps in time and space: we move from Noah’s ark to Kirkegaten in Kristiansand,from the zealots’ mass suicide on the Masada plateau in 73 ADto sea levels rising, and from climbing plant propagation to a hypothetical future. He looks at poisoned bodies, fragile souls and corrupt societal bodies.Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad’s previous book,Teori om det eneste, was nominated for the Brage Prize, and he has now written a new poetic masterpiece ’19 forgiftninger is a book that demands a lot from the reader, but also gives a lot back in the form of a palpable sense of intensity and sensibility.’DAGSAVISEN‘The sense of nature’s indifference is dizzying in Nils Christian Moe-Repstad’s poetic exploration of the consequences of poisoning.’MORGENBLADET‘I think that 19 forgiftninger is Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad’s best book to date. Last year he was nominated for the Brage Prize. This year he might just win it!’AFTENPOSTEN

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ADA
Literature and Fiction2014 · 160 pp

ADA

Odd Klippenvåg

Winner of the Riksmål Society Literature Prize 2014It's 1955. A young man named Paul comes to a little island community in the far north of Norway to be a substitute teacher for a year. Ada is a cleaner at the school and mother to a girl in the class he teaches. Ada was born with a large and disfiguring birth mark which she tries to hide by always wearing a headscarf.Little by little Paul gets to know Ada and her daughter. He helps them with herding sheep and ploughing on their little farm. Paul is attracted to Ada despite her appearance, and even thoughshe is several years older than him. He is able to see another Ada behind the veil, a strong and remarkable woman, and for this reason she is beautiful to him. He finally manages to break through her shyness. He sees her without her headscarf and they start a relationship that they have to hide from everyone.Several years later, he is retired and on a car trip in the same area with his much younger wife, who he hasn't told anything about his past. Ada is a moving novel set in the magnificent landscape of Northern Norway. A classic love story about a mismatched couple, fate and nature, profundity and superficiality, despair and shame. ‘Depiction of both the characters and environment is great. Klippenvåg uses his own local knowledge and paints a vivid picture of Lofoten. We envision the small, roadless, rural community and its beautiful surroundings where everyone looks after and watches each other. The quality of the novel is primarily due to the language. Klippenvåg uses very polished and eloquent language.’NORDLYS ‘Adacould easily have become a melodramatic and banal novel with a tried-and-tested yet overused theme. But Odd Klippenvåg’s form and language raises this book to something gripping, believable and beautiful. This is because the narrator – using slightly old-fashioned yet mouldable language – never falls victim to speculative descriptions or hyper-sentimental portrayals. And the astonishing and surprising conclusion of the story gives Ada a gravity that makes it well worth reading.’LOFOTPOSTEN

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Remorse
Literature and Fiction2014 · 272 pp

Remorse

Roy Jacobsen

Remorse is a novel about a father who knows that he has not done right by his only daughter. Hans Larsen is 72 years old, just out of jail after doing time. In the same city as him his daughter Marianne is trying to keep life together for herself and her little daughter. Hans knows that the best he can do is to stay away. But it is not easy, as he really wants to see his daughter and granddaughter. So he starts spying on them, through a mediator. Marianne wants nothing to do with her father. But she has some remorse of her own, so she asks her boyfriend to spy on Hans. I the middle of all this Hans falls in love with a woman his own age. He is almost starting to see life in a bright way, the little he has left of it. The father and daughter are driven closer, unwillingly and indirectly. The question is if there can be a form of reconciliation between them. Or maybe it in the end takes a miracle. ´Elegant, raw and human. Humour of a kind that make you chuckle in the darkness. A dark novel to bright up the fall.´HAUGESUNDS AVIS ´The artful filigree work, connected to two complicated minds marked by the shadows of times passed and a latent wish for reconciliation, is fascinating, even occasionally masterly done.´STAVANGER AFTENBLAD ´Jacobsen is an excessive writer managing to bring out the wounded human destinies from aparantly grey everyday life in a way is is hard to stay untouched by.´DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ´Great literature´KLASSEKAMPEN

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Beatles
Literature and Fiction2014 · 736 pp

Beatles

Lars Saabye Christensen

This is the story of four Beatles-crazed Oslo-boys born in the year of 1951. We follow them as seventh graders, standing on the verge of taking the leap into adulthood – “We took the future in advance, and it looked damned good”. The story ends in the fall of 1972, as the swells of the youth protests of Europe are flooding them and their protected bourgeois environment, no feet left dry. Beatles was first published in 1984, and is among the greatest sales successes in modern Norwegian Publishing. The novel was Lars Saabye Christensens great breakthrough as a writer, and it is read by generation after generation. Beatles is the first book in a trilogy, followed by Lead (1990) and The Funeral (2008). Readers of Dagbladet named the book Best Norwegian Novel of the last 25 years in 2006."An exquisitely told story. It can be read right through, tasting of an entire summer and half a childhood."PUBLICO, Portugal"A celebration of love and friendship, and with acceptance for the great loneliness of the soul. Beatles is literary Blues. Read it. Hum, sigh, laugh. Enjoy!"AKTUELT, Denmark"His details are superb. In short scenes or hastily passing lines, he captures the atmosphere exactly."GÖTEBORGSPOSTEN, Sweden "Christensen really can play with styles, rapidly changing voices – he glides from melancholia to darkness and grotesque, then puts us right in the middle of a chaotic stream of consciousness. He can disarm raw seriousness with subtle humor."GAZETA WYBORCZA, Poland "Lars Saabye Christensen, the author of the cult Halvbroren, proved already with his debut Beatles that he is a master of prose."HARPERS BAZAAR POLSKA, Poland

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The Drowned Boy
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2014 · 224 pp

The Drowned Boy

Karin Fossum

"He´d just learned to walk" she said. "He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone." A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene, as there is something troubling about the mother´s story. As even her own family turns against her, Sejer is determined to get the truth. This is the eleventh book about Inspector Sejer. Fossum´s Inspector Sejer novels are invariably morally and psychologically complex affairs, but The Drowned Boy might well be her crowning achievement to date. IRISH TIMES Karin Fossums minimalist police procedurals have a stealthy way of mutating into richer, if also darker, psychological studies of criminals and their victims.NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A gripping story, balanced, believable and compassionate.GUARDIAN

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