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I Don’t Have It in Me To Be a Parent Representative
Literature and Fiction2025 · 176 pp

I Don’t Have It in Me To Be a Parent Representative

Caroline Kaspara Palonen

Maria is afflicted by a mental illness, and her entire family life is thrown out of balance. As Maria withdraws, Audhild, a brand new acquaintance, takes over more and more of Maria’s caregiving tasks and eventually becomes important source of support for Erik. This new addition to their everyday life isn’t without its problems. The novel switches between Maria’s dissociative state and Erik’s situation as caregiver and next of kin. Will Maria ever come back to them? Does her role as a mother have anything to do with her desire to come back? And what happens to the children as their mother withdraws? Will Erik be able to deal with the crisis the family finds itself in? I Don’t Have It in Me To Be a Parent Representative is a dark, funny, topical and claustrophobic novel from a seemingly completely normal Norwegian life with small children.

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Cold Song
Literature and Fiction2025 · 352 pp

Cold Song

Eivind Buene

Cold Song is an extraordinary novel where the ultra-modern life crash against old values, and challenges must be met together as a community. It is a book about losing control of one's own history - and about finding a family where you least expect it. In 2043, New Norway is established on the Arabian Peninsula. As a result of climate change, the country of Norway has frozen over, and with the exception of a few loners and hardy people, the entire Norwegian population has left. Among them, Lydia. One day, a young woman appears, says her name is Tale, and that she works in the Oslo administration in the old country. She says she is Lydia's half-sister, and shortly afterwards they travel back to a frozen Oslo, where Lydia has not set foot in 20 years. This is the beginning of a journey through snow and ice, via Sami separatists and the freaks around Kvadraturen, and into her own past. At the same time, Lydia becomes acquainted with a new Oslo, where you can drive snowmobiles across Valkyrie Square, and the buildings sing in the wind.

Kaja 2000
Literature and Fiction2025 · 320 pp

Kaja 2000

Frederik Svindland

After being expelled, Vito starts at a new school in the city—the same school as his dream girl, Kaja 2000.But nothing goes as he imagined. The dream girl has now become a source of frustration. Now that they’re finally in the same place, Kaja doesn’t want him anymore. Still, Vito moves on. He makes new friends—really cool ones. A completely different kind of crowd than he’s used to. These are true hip-hop heads: they rap, do graffiti, spend all their money on spray cans and vinyl and on other things too. Things you can’t buy over the counter. Some of them even deal a bit. But compared to the people Vito used to hang out with, they’re way less messed up. But the past isn’t easy to shake.Alvarez, Vito’s oldest friend, also goes to the new school—and he’s still getting into trouble. When things go sideways, Vito is the one who has to step in and save him. With help from his new crew. And from Kaja. Kaja 2000. Is he really over her? Kaja 2000 is the raw, darkly funny, and deeply hopeful sequel to Damn Kid—a story of friendship, love, and survival in a town drowning in drugs and despair.

Maybe Elephants
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2025 · 144 pp · Age 12+

Maybe Elephants

Torill Kove

In the middle of 1970s, Torill's family left the familiar surroundings of Hamar, Norway to live in Kenya for three years. The lives of the three sisters change forever. As expats in Nairobi, the girls suddenly lived a completely new, exotic life. They attend international schools and make new, older friends with motorcycles. Nairobi offered them a different freedom than they had back in their hometown in Norway. One day, their mother suggests a safari. They hire a car and drive into the savannah. They see elephants, sleep in tents, and when the tyres are punctured they are rescued by a Maasai family. Three years later the family return to Norway. But did they truly see elephants on the safari trip? The girls cannot agree. «Oscar-winner Torill Kove offers a charming and tender album of memories from growing up in Kenya.»DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

Kismet
Mystery and Crime2025 · 334 pp

Kismet

Torkil Damhaug / Abid Raja

A gripping and highly relevant psychological thriller from bookseller favourite Abid Raja and award-winning crime author Torkil Damhaug Abid Raja and Torkil Damhaug have written an intelligent and intensely suspenseful novel that blends political intrigue, psychological depth and a pulse that never lets up. Thirty-five-year-old Aurang Zeb Khan is summoned to a secret meeting at the Prime Minister’s office. The lawyer, with a minority background and a rising political profile, has been named a candidate for a ministerial post. Aurang has spoken openly in the media about his turbulent youth, admitting to brushes with gangs and petty crime, and claims he has been open and honest about his past. But when childhood friend Musah Ahmad suddenly resurfaces, disturbing memories from a Quran school in Pakistan and teenage years in Oslo’s East emerge, memories that must remain buried at all costs. Soon, Aurang finds himself under pressure from multiple sides, and it is no longer just his career on the line. It becomes a matter of survival, of old lies and a past that must never come to light. Are there forces within or around us that shape who we become and what we do? Or are our actions the result of free will? Kismet offers a unique combination of Damhaug’s psychological precision and Raja’s first-hand insight into political and cultural environments rarely explored in Norwegian fiction. The result is an unpredictable, powerful and brilliantly written novel about power, identity and the defining choices that shape our lives. NOMINATED FOR THE RIVERTON PRIZE 2025 «... the duo Damhaug and Raja is a stroke of genius. [...] More than a furiously exciting thriller, Kismet is a very good and multifaceted story.»Dagbladet, five/six stars «From a crime-technical perspective, Kismet is well-composed and neatly structured. The book is easy to read and flows naturally. The conversational style of the characters we meet is spot on. [...] In terms of quality, Kismet easily elevates itself among other newly written Norwegian crime fiction. The dynamic duo of Damhaug and Raja appear to have collaborated flawlessly.»VG «Damhaug has been one of Norway's most consistently interesting crime writers since his debut with Se meg, Medusa in 2007. Raja has been a prominent public debater for 25 years, with evolving perspectives on what it means to be Muslim in Norway. He achieved a literary breakthrough with his autobiography Min skyld in 2021. Together, they have crafted a crime novel that plays to both their strengths.»Morgenbladet

Come Home, Amadou
Mystery and Crime2025 · 224 pp

Come Home, Amadou

Karin Fossum

In the fifth book about Chief Inspector Eddie Feber, Karin Fossum lets the past strike back At Store Gaupen farm, the late summer silence is broken by a violent roar from the sky. For farm owner Nancy Nesbit, the sound is an ominous echo of something far more threatening, of an event she experienced as a ten-year-old, when a white van stopped by the roadside and changed everything. When she, in a magazine, reads about the unsolved disappearance of eight-year-old Sonia Sanningen in 1987, the memories come back in full force. The information she has may be what finally solves the case, or what tears up everything she has tried to bury. Eddie Feber must dig into a 36-year-old mystery, where repressed memories, old clues and new threats are woven together. Come Home, Amadou is an intense crime novel about guilt, silence and about how one observation can change everything. NOMINATED FOR THE RIVERTON PRIZE 2025

New thriller by Norway's Queen of Crime
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Cocks
Literature and Fiction2025 · 256 pp

Cocks

Erlend Loe

One morning, while taking a shower, Tander's penis simply falls off. It’s awkward. It’s inconvenient. It’s… quite a problem, to say the least. He places it carefully in a box marked "Raspberries" and stores it in the freezer before cycling to the emergency room. Surely, someone must be able to reattach it? The doctors are fascinated, but unable to help. One even offers to buy it. Tander declines. He returns home without answers — and with some difficult questions. Should he tell his wife? Can he keep his job at the motor magazine? Has this happened to other men? Cocks is a sharply funny story about loss, identity, and modern masculinity. With Erlend Loe’s signature absurdism and satire, it explores what it really means to be a man — and to be whole. «The author’s dry, witty style is perfect for absurd stories like this. […] This is fun. A lot of fun.»Stavanger Aftenblad, five/six stars «When did a novel last make me laugh out loud? I mean, outright hooting with laughter? […] t's the outrageously original connections Erlend Loe makes between the important and the unimportant that make the laughter burst forth.»NRK, five/six stars «He’s a worldclass artist, and he’s still going strong after all the books he’s written.»Framtida «Loe is funny, extremely funny.»Dagbladet «Loe is, as always, a funny writer. He writes with an ease you have to admire.»VG «Mundane, you may think? Remember that this is one of Norway’s craziest writing minds, who regularly pumps out main characters with champagne problems you never would have been able to imagine.»Bok365 «Only Loe can come up with something so crazy and original – here is enough material to cure a light autumn depression. […] Loe writes amusingly in a wild and lush language.»Adresseavisa

Investigation into modern masculinity
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The Landscape and the Cosmos
Literature and Fiction2025 · 240 pp

The Landscape and the Cosmos

Rune Salvesen

It starts with the mountain, where Filip wanders alone. He has been unfaithful but doesn’t regret it. The family was already broken; it shattered one cold autumn evening a year ago when they lost what was most important to them. An all-consuming silence is all that remains. Not unlike the silence on the mountain. Nevertheless, a storm rages in Filip – his mind races, from serious contemplation to minor observations, from the infinity of space to the aquatic skills of the frog, but also back to that first look, that first touch, the medical restraints, the village pub one Saturday evening, the text messages and the lies, the people at home, but also the people who are not at home, who are now a memory, in the bog on the mountain one cold autumn evening a year ago. The Landscape and the Cosmos is an investigation of our nature, a little life in a wider world, and the significant in what is little. And, not least, of what we tell ourselves to keep going on the mountain in the midst of a storm.

Lenny
Literature and Fiction2025 · 176 pp

Lenny

Helene V. Nortvedt

She has inherited the dog, Lenny, and the cabin from her father. Two years have passed since he died, but this summer something is different. Her boyfriend Nils is camping with friends, and she wonders whether someone else is in his arms. She takes part in a séance at the cabin with her friend Ylva. She writes three words to herself on a piece of paper and buries it in the bog. Lenny is nearby; she can just about see him in the dark. He’s staring at Ylva, which is strange. Then he jumps, right at her face. Afterwards, he is totally calm again. All summer she tries to figure out what has happened to Lenny, but is there really an answer? And how is she to wrap her head around where she stands, in her relationship with Nils, in her grief over her father, and in her own life? Is this something she herself can decide? Lenny is a poetic novel that explores animal and human nature.

Small Print
Literature and Fiction2025 · 64 pp

Small Print

Lars Saabye Christensen

With Liten skrift (Small Print), Lars Saabye Christensen continues his wry perspective on contemporary times and the world. Ever since his debut, he has been one of our Norway's most widely read poets.

Saturdays With Mom and Other Stories
Literature and Fiction2025 · 352 pp

Saturdays With Mom and Other Stories

Kristian S. Hæggernes

Saturdays with Mom and Other Stories is a continuation and expansion of the project that began with Cashiers I Have Loved and Other Stories in 2010. This time, several of the stories revolve around themes such as death and illness, growing up and ambitions, and relationships between parents and children through different stages of life. In the title story, when Åshild is out in town with her mother, as is their Saturday morning custom, they meet one of the neighbor boys from her childhood, and memories from the years she spent a lot of time with the four boys in the house next door come flooding back. The narrator in "Remember the Pillow" joins his younger colleagues for a Friday beer to avoid going home to his sick wife. Thea wants to write a piano suite about the Norse gods, so she can name one of the movements after her classmate Loke. Daniel not only experiences his younger sister getting a boyfriend before him but also has to watch her get together with one of the boys who used to bully him in football and in junior high. But perhaps he himself is on the verge of making things work with Rebekka, who is a recurring character in the last three stories, where her life turns out completely different from what she had envisioned it would be. Saturdays with Mom offers melancholy tales from decisive everyday moments.

The Magnolia Woman
Literature and Fiction2025 · 96 pp

The Magnolia Woman

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Heline is most beautiful in the spring. She's already started to get buds on her neck. In a fortnight, her long, green hair will be full of white flowers. Heline is 10% magnolia. Kaj lives on the outskirts of civilisation, or what's left of it, with Heline and the cat, Zakkeus. In their world, some people have taken on genetic material from plants and animals, and this material is gradually taking over. Both Kaj and Heline know that there isn't much time left before she isn't 10%, but 100% plant. Until it might just be Kaj and the cat. But they choose to do the best they can, live as well as they can, together, even though the wildfires are becoming an ever-greater threat, it occasionally rains acid from the sky, spooky creatures roam the forest, and the food deliveries by drone become fewer and eventually stop altogether. The Magnolia Woman is a story about who we become when the world falls apart, but most of all: who we should be, can be, if we retain our dignity, love and curiosity. In classic Bringsværdian style, this little story is in a big story. It is a story for our time, and a story for eternity, a story about what it means to be human.