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Andre og bedre historier
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

Andre og bedre historier

Edel Maria Landsem

Above the earth we tell stories. Stories of hugs and bodies and souls and sex. Dewy-fresh words and old sentences, genious pieces and deceitful memories. We want to be thinking humans in a gliding story, vagabonds with free will, free feet and a free head. Other and Better Stories by Edel Maria Landsem is a burlesque and sassy collection of short stories about everything that can happen when what’s well-behaved and normal is on collision course with the baser forces of our human nature. A woman travels to London in affect after a breakup, and ends up shitfaced in a hotel bar, grasping for the wrong guy. Another is on a romantic weekend getaway in Paris with her husband, but sneaks outside during the night wearing only a trenchcoat while he is sleeping. A third becomes so jealous that she reveals a scandalous secret about the parentage of her friends’ child. A fourth visits her father in a nursing home, gets terrified of early dementia, takes a leave of absence from work and travels to Switzerland. The women in these stories experience the small despairs of everyday life while dreaming of travels, self-fulfillment, excitement and belonging, all while they are feeling deep longing, spite, and the urge to break free. Fresh debut about well-behaved women's everyday despair, spite and primordial powers ... one can rejoice in a vital, rythmical languace, rich fantasy, odd perspectives, depth and knowledge, and not least, a significant dose of liberating and totally normal madness, as several female protagonists go off the deep end. FIVE OUT OF SIX STARSSTAVANGER AFTENBLAD Landsem’s talent is clear, her humanist capital is large, and taking into account her mode of writing – her essayistic, novel-like fragments without an obvious plot, but with surperior linguistic authority – I think we’ll see thicker books from her pen in the future.VÅRT LAND

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Echoes of the City
Literature and Fiction2021 · 464 pp

Echoes of the City

Lars Saabye Christensen

The fourth volume of Echoes of the City centres on Jesper Kristoffersen and Trude Hagen, whose destinies are closely bound to the city and the streets they live on, as well as Oslo’s other inhabitants. Fagerborg and the world are shrinking, the pace of life has stepped up a notch: it is the 1980s and a new generation is taking over, a generation with the world at its feet. The tramlines bind the city together but also lead to places that take people out of the city ­– whether to Hurdal, Sweden or Lake Como. Regardless of how different their dreams may be, their struggles place them at odds with the city and the world.

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Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2021 · 240 pp

Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog

Karin Fossum

We’re in it together, she said. No matter how it ends, we two are in it together – can you promise me that? That she’ll die pretty soon? They looked at each other and smiled. After all, it was only a game. Aksel is a journalist with the local newspaper whose boss says he’s ‘good at tragedies’. His sister Ellinor has lost her job and is desperately seeking to escape from reality. Brother and sister have been close since childhood, bound together by destiny. A gas leak on a one of the big farms kills several hired hands in their sleep. It looks like an accident. In a nearby house, an 80-year-old woman is found lying at the foot of her stairs one day, with a crushed skull. Somebody has left the place in disarray to make it look like a burglary. In Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog, we meet a new and unusual detective: Eddie Feber – a man blessed with joie de vivre and eight children. Alert and seemingly chaotic, he nonetheless has strategies for bringing the dark truth to light.

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A Random Bureucrat
Literature and Fiction2021 · 304 pp

A Random Bureucrat

Lars Saabye Christensen

Gordon Mo works in the Ministry of Agriculture and is the very model of a grey bureaucrat. But inside he’s seething and now and then he has to relieve the pressure: that’s when he checks into a hotel and lets off a bit of steam from the pressure cooker. This works fine until one day at work when a cake is served up in his honour: that day, unfortunately, the pressure becomes too much for Gordon Mo. To cut a long story short, by the next day he no longer works at the ministry. But unlike many 60-year-old bureaucrats who lose their jobs, Gordon Mo is not superfluous: a shy old man who’s seething inside needs something. This is the starting point for Gordon Mo’s journey, which begins at an institution outside Baltimore that is supposed to get him back on his feet again. There he encounters the night watchman, Only Me, who will turn out to play a decisive role in the novel. What’s more, there’s a certain Frans Meek in the background who’s pulling the strings and ensuring that things continue to boil over here and there. A Random Norwegian takes the pulse of our age with stinging wit and warmth.Norwegian Reviews: Serious playfulness in zesty new Saabye Christensen novel.BOK365Funnier than ever.For this is a contemporary novel, darn it! And as such it is equally absurd, smart, funny, provoking and elegantly written.Dagbladet – Five stars out of Six Filled with energy!The book is full of linguistic energy, smart turns of phrase and just the right number of eccentric individuals, just like you would expect from this author....I could just keep on quoting for a long time, as this book is full of little literary pearls. But rather, I'll just say: Read the book!VG – Five stars out of Six Invited to a party by Saabye Christensen!Lars Saabye Christensen has written an original masterpiece. I will only tell you this once: Get this book, clear your schedule and take your time with these three hundred pages. The author invites you to a linguistic Party with a capital P and a minor undertone. In the company of a Random Bureaucrat and a few other individuals....Linguistically spiced up with intelligent and intense formulations – almost an encyclopaedia for your next public speech.NETTAVISEN – Six stars out of six. Saabye Christensen’s engaginged and energetic novel could hardly be any more contemporary than this. (…) And the sentences. Wonderfully quotable aphoristic golden nuggets – the speciality of Saabye Christensen.DAGSAVISEN

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The Caliphate
Mystery and Crime2021 · 416 pp

The Caliphate

Terje Bjøranger

The body of a young man is discovered on Bygdøy island, Oslo. He is found wearing an orange coverall, and sitting with his own severed head held in his lap. Acts of terror strike Norway and Sweden, and the brutal nature of the attacks shake the peaceful Scandinavia. A young Yezidi woman is released from captivity, after several years as a sex slave in the Islamic State (IS). The Yezidi woman, who calls herself Baso, discovers that her former “owner” is now located in Sweden. Together with the Norwegian and Swedish police forces, Police Investigator Charlie Robertsen learns that the terrorists behind the recent attacks have even bigger plans. For even if the Islamic caliphate, seated in Raqqa, Syria now lays in ruins, the dream of the Caliphate still lives on. Charlie’s criminal foster son, Kim, is released from prison and ends caught up in the young yezidi woman’s burning desire for revenge, landing him in the crossfire between Charlie and the Jihadists.

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The Power
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

The Power

Heidi Furre

I can often see it in others. I don’t exactly know how I can see it, because it’s fleeting. It inhabits their face. It’s in their skin, around their mouth, in their eyes. Some women carry the pain in their face. Men too. It’s difficult to pin down, it easily slips away. It defies youth, it defies beauty. I’ve seen it in others since I was a child, before I knew what it was. I’ve seen it in children. I’ve seen it in elderly women. Some days I’ve seen it in myself. In my pores, in my skin tone, in the lines on my face. If I don’t watch out, it seeps through.Liv is a nurse. She takes good care of herself and others. She is a normal person hiding a normal secret. One night, many years ago, she was raped. By a man she willingly followed home. The Power is a novel about power, but also a book about having the power. The Power to move on. Unsafe spacesA thing that I value with Furres writing is how the feelings of her characters are taken seriously. Especially in her two latest novels the specific female experiences, that before might have been dismissed as overly sensitive, is given space and explanation. In The Power the personal experiences are also highly political, without the author turning it into a gender discussion about how men can not relate to the lives of women. Instead, The Power is a concrete tale of the experiences of Liv, a story many women can relate to as we step of the bus late at night and must walk the last stretch home on a dimly lit road.MORGENBLADET A totally normal type of rapeOne out of ten women become victims of rape. (…) With The Power Heidi Furre shows what those statistics actually mean. The topic is harsh and painful, but The Power is also good literature. (…) A novel about rape and the effects it has both on an individual and general level will obviously never by a “nice” feelgood book. But Heidi Furre manages to take good care of the reader none the less in this wise and clear book.DAGBLADET Accurate about the relief of traumaIn Heidi Furre´s hard striking novel The Power a mother of small children is trying to take back the control of her own life. What has happened cannot be undone. And this grey zone rape never ends up in a court of law. But Heidi Furre has found a different sort of relief in her precise sentences. A form that finds the reader.NRK One of this falls most important books.framtida.no

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Mayday
Mystery and Crime2021 · 336 pp

Mayday

Grethe Bøe

Sensational Action Thriller Debut! The Arctic is blowing up – and Ylva is the spark! Caught behind enemy lines, NATO-pilots Ylva and John faces a seemingly impossible task: They have to cross the frozen Siberian tundra on foot - with the enemy at their heels – to get back to Norway and stop a catastrophe that might lead to World War III. The relations between Russia and NATO are at a freezing point as NATO launches their greatest ever winter exercise in the far north of Norway. The Russians are provoked and mobilize their own “snap exercise” on the Russian side of the border. A Russian fighter plane is provoking a Norwegian carrier helicopter in the border area between Norway and Russia, and F-16-pilots John Evans and Ylva Nordahl is sent to escort the helicopter safely to shore. The NATO-plane end up in a stress-flight with the Russian plane, and the F-16 is damaged in a near crash, it is then shot down after ending up on the Russian side of the border. The episode sparks political crisis where both Russia and NATO see the event as an attack. The only thing that can stop an all-destructive conflict is the pilots Ylva Nordahl and John Evans making their way back across the border to Norway, to tell what really happened. It is a fight against time, as the Russian President, The General Secretary of NATO and private military industry are all sharpening their knives.Norwegian Reviews: Norwegian Crime Sensation: Bravo!Grethe Bøe makes a great debut with achillinglyrealistic thriller where the north of Norway is in danger of becoming a new Crimea.***** - Five stars out of six.DAGBLADETRefreshing debutGrethe Bøe and her protagonist Ylva are fresh and welcome additions to the Norwegian Crime Book Universe. It feels refreshing to have the arrival of a female author writing in a genre otherwise dominated by men - already writing with authority and weight about anything from international politics and reindeer herding to how to fly a fighter jet. And not least in a language full of good and creative descriptions and sentences.VGA seriously fresh debutThe idea and potential is at top level, written with international approach, cockiness and thorough on all the detail; be it the technical parts of flying a fighter jet, military, political or geographical (...) with main characters that have extreme survival skills and technical knowledge.ADRESSEAVISA Nightmare in the whiteIce-cold thriller with a unique female hero.***** - Five starts out of six.STAVANGER AFTENBLADFrightingly good from BøeGrethe Bøe has established herself in the top of Norwegian crime authors on her first try. … This is the best crime debut I have read – ever.***** - Five starts out of six.NETTAVISEN Thriller from the ice-cold ArcticGrethe Bøe has created a story with great weight when it comes to the relevance of the topic.GJENGANGEREN This is without a doubt one of the best debut of the year. I take my hat off for this thoroughly solid debut, and with [Grethe Bøe] welcome into the gang of thriller and crime writers. Because Bøe can write. I already look forward to her next book.RANDABERG 24 Grethe Bøe has written a smart and entertaining thrillerEntertaining and smart.AFTENPOSTEN Salander on speedSay hello to the northern Lisbeth Salander.BOK365

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The Middle Man
Literature and Fiction2021 · 176 pp

The Middle Man

Lars Saabye Christensen

The Middle Man is a dark and humorous satire taking place in the small American town called Karmack. After a series of accidents and deaths, the small town’s own “commission” – consisting of a sheriff, a doctor and a priest – decides to hire a “middle man”. A person in charge of informing family and relatives when an accident occurs. Frank Farrelli is a quiet and sane guy who is seemingly perfect for the job. He undertakes his new duties with enthusiasm and quickly becomes the town’s messenger for bad news. But the pressure from his new job as well as a new thriving romantic connection overwhelms Frank. To ease the burden, he calls in a ‘service’ that ends in a murder, and Frank finds himself stuck in a vicious circle where he is not only the guy who brings bad news, but also the one making them

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The Fall of the Patriarchy
Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 104 pp

The Fall of the Patriarchy

Marta Breen / Jenny Jordahl

Through history feminists have been ridiculed and harassed all around the World. In the 18th Century well-known feminists where decapitated in the guillotines, and in the 19th Century the Suffragettes were thrown in jail. In our time feminist activists are imprisoned in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia. Feminists are labelled as moody, angry and unattractive. Still, new generations are daring to proudly call themselves feminists. Author Marta Breen and illustrator Jenny Jordahl have through a number of books proved themselves as great communicators when it comes to the history of women. In this book they take the reader for a joyride through the cultural history of the patriarchy. With a good dose of humour the tell the stories about how men from Aristoteles to Woody Allen has described the world through the male gaze. They tell the stories of the women who through history has fought the oppression – and they rank the world’s worst sexists through times. Join us in finally taking down the patriarchy!

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Right to Privacy
Literature and Fiction2021 · 346 pp

Right to Privacy

Selma Lønning Aarø

An author wakes up in hospital. Something dramatic has happened – she just can’t quite remember what. What she can recall, however, is what happened before. When the author moves to Fredrikstad from Oslo with her family, she finds new friends, a new life and what she hopes will be the starting-point for a new novel. Her new girlfriend X has given her permission to write whatever she wants about what they describe as a major issue that has marked X’s life. It looks set to be the author’s best novel ever, but X gradually becomes increasingly unstable and intimidating, and the author realises that her entire writing project is in jeopardy. The same goes for her artistic freedom, her finances, her relationship to her publisher and colleagues – not to mention the relationships in her own family. What can an author allow herself, and who really owns a story? Selma Lønning Aarø’s new novel is funny, sometimes frightening and unusually topical. A continuation of a strong feminist tradition, it also comments on the debate about reality literature. Funny and sharp-witted “Selma Lønning Aarø explores the dilemmas of autofiction – and with a brand new twist. … What is the ethical responsibility of an author? [Her] new novel, Right to Privacy, goes straight to the heart of this problem in a way that is both funny and thought-provoking. (…) You come home with her, and would rather not leave. (…) she is both very funny and knowledgeable.” AFTENPOSTEN “Elegantly done (…) Selma Lønning Aarø writes with levity and humour, with lots of funny and sharp turns of phrase, observations, conclusions. (…) And there is it again, the question of what is real – and “real”. Selma Lønning Aarø doesn’t offer a solution. That’s the point. But a fun and quite original twist on the problem raised, is something that is definitely offered in Right to Privacy.” DAGSAVISEN Satirical and astute “With Right to Privacy, Selma Lønning Aarø invites us to think critically about the use of real-life models in literature, and she offers several interesting reflections about the nature of truth and who gets to tell their story.” DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV “It’s a smooth-flowing, well-oiled text, written without ornaments, tight-reined … Lønning Aarø writes hilariously about being perceived as getting on in years, about supposedly belonging to a time gone by.” FREDRIKSTAD BLAD

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The Angry Psychologist
Literature and Fiction2021 · 416 pp

The Angry Psychologist

Synne Sun Løes

The Angry Psychologist: Idunn Jæger (49) is supposed to rescue other people. But one day, everything falls apart. One Monday morning, psychologist Idunn Jæger finds a woman standing outside the District Psychiatric Centre (DPC) with a basket full of eggs. Before she has time to think it through, Idunn finds herself joining in as the woman hurling eggs at her workplace. A lot of eggs. It’s marvellous to see them smashing against the glass door. Idunn is 49 years old and single. She is thoroughly dreading the departure of her son Gustav, who’s about to start military service. She’s enraged by the official one-size-fits-all approach to mental health care. She is angry with Health Minister, and his zero tolerance goal for suicide, which she views as unrealistic and inhumane. It’s tempting to lie down on the sofa and just give up. But then the police ring at her door. And Freud creeps out of the sofa cushion. The Angry Psychologist is a satirical novel in which the distance between supposed normality and insanity is wafer-thin.Synne Sun Løes has written a really funny book! *****NETTAVISEN It´s entertaining to see someone "loose it" completely. DAGBLADET

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Unloved
Literature and Fiction2021 · 224 pp

Unloved

Iram Haq

Sofia is from Oslo, the child of Pakistani parents. She often has too little money and spends too much time on Tinder. Sofia is awarded a grant to make photographic art but suspects she only got it because she’s brown. When her father falls seriously ill, she starts to take pictures of him. And when an old flame comes to town, Sofia’s yearning for love intensifies. A passionate affair ensues. Unloved is driven by painful comedy and characters with an instinct for survival. This debut is amongst the very best this fall. (…) A well composed narrative. (…) Unloved is a nuanced family portrait that both wonders and rebels. – FIVE STARS OUT OF SIXSTAVANGER AFTENBLAD With her debut novel Unloved, Iram Haq has made her way to the upper echelons of younger Norwegian novelists. Unloved is well written, and the topic of the book is good and important.- FIVE STARS OUT OF SIXNETTAVISEN Brutally honestIram Haq proves herself as a steady builder of character, and that makes the book principally good. Sofia is frighteningly vivid. Iram Haq has written a novel that leaves marks. – FIVE STARS OUT OF SIXDAGBLADET Funny, tender and sexy novelIram Haq´s debut novel is a great read!AFTENPOSTEN

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