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One Hundred Thirteen
Literature and Fiction2023 · 272 pp

One Hundred Thirteen

Gøril Emilie Hellen

One Hundred Thirteen is a beautiful, sad, and thought-provoking novel about a family who loses a child. Irene and Peder lead a busy, modern family life with “yours” and “mine” children – until the youngest child, the one they have together, suddenly dies. To the idealistic medical doctor dad Peder, organ donation is the only morally correct choice after the tragic loss, something he talks Irene into. After a while both Peder and Irene are forced to ask questions about the moral and emotional splits they are stuck in. One Hundred Thirteen is a novel about living in the shadow of someone else’s desire to do what’s right. Because what does it actually mean to do the right thing?

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Where I Did Go
Literature and Fiction2023 · 256 pp

Where I Did Go

Silje Bergum Kinsten

Do you believe in destiny? Yes? But isn’t destiny just another way to limit yourself? The patriarchal slightly set version of “that’s just the way things are”? “Nothing you can do about it”? “You’ll have to suffer in silence”? “Life isn’t always a piece of cake”? And especially for women, of course. Who belong in the kitchen and next to their husband. In Silje Bergum Kinsten’s second novel, Where Did I Go?, the main character Anne lies awake next to her husband and is certain that she perhaps, possibly, wants something completely different, but she’s not sure what exactly. Whatever happened to the real her while she fulfilled everyone else’s expectations (marriage, career, the nuclear family, etc)? And isn’t it about time to challenge this so-called destiny?

Fire, Teeth, Water, Tongue
Literature and Fiction2023 · 320 pp

Fire, Teeth, Water, Tongue

Nhu Diep

Fire, Teeth, Water, Tongue is a personal book of memories. Through episodic glimpses and scenes from her own life, Nhu Diep writes about her own complicated family story. Around 10,000 Vietnamese refugees arrived in Norway between 1975 and 1990. Among these were Ba and Má – meaning mother and father in Vietnamese – and their eleven children. The family was picked up by a Norwegian tank ship in 1978 and later put on a plane to Oslo. Little N was 8 months old at the time. In a yellow house the eleven siblings grow up. They get rôi (a beating) day and night. Brutal violence, a strict family hierarchy, and high demands and expectations marks N and her siblings’s childhoods, so they all carry with them many wounds into their adult lives. As a young adult N chooses to move away from her family. She needs to find out who she is, what she’s capable of and what she wants, and what role her family will occupy in her life. But eventually a wish to belong appears, bit by bit. She starts calling home, speaks Vietnamese instead of Norwegian. She gradually finds her way home, back to her own kin. Then the unthinkable happens. A death occurs in the family, suddenly and brutally. N returns home. When life is at its hardest, they are there, with their black manes, ready to welcome her. Now, her family must find a way to move forward - together. Fire, Teeth, Water, Tongue is a mature and good debut novel, about finding a place in a very special family, and finding one's own path in life.NRK Nhu Diep's intense coming-of-age novel shows the complex art of reconciliation after parental neglect (...) In Diep's account of growing up, there are experiences that are worth taking note of. And the power that lies in being able to reach out a hand to the child in itself - I keep thinking about that.KLASSEKAMPEN Our lives are not epic stories from A to Z, most of us do not go through 'a journey', but are left with strong moments, decisive episodes and small details that for more or less understandable reasons have stuck in our memory.DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

I Have Colleagues
Literature and Fiction2023 · 240 pp

I Have Colleagues

Camilla Bogetun Johansen

I Have Colleagues is a novel about labour. Luckily I got a job. With the municipality. What are your thoughts on being beaten? the interviewer asked me. With tenderness, candor and comedy, author Camilla Bogetun Johansen writes about the physical and mental reality of being a care worker.. We meet the geology student, the chef, the telemarketer, the former hand model, the artist, the unskilled employees, the social worker and more. Their common ground is that they work in a caregiving home for mentally disabled autists. What kind of work is it to be a care worker? And who is the care worker? I Have Colleagues is a novel about manual labor, dreams, money – and being a body in search of a safe place.

I Hope You Are Doing Ok
Literature and Fiction2023 · 80 pp

I Hope You Are Doing Ok

Ole-Petter Vaaten

Ole-Petter Vaaten’s poetry collection I Hope You Are Doing Ok explores the idea of longing. Longing for life as it used to be. Longing for someone to need you. Longing for those who are gone. Longing for love. At the same time Vaaten’s poetry is exploring getting used to longing. For example, that piece of the sky that existed over the house you grew up in. Some of the poems also hint at a growing sense of unease about what’s awaiting you in the future, such as old age and death. Some of the poems describe a general unease about a world which is changing at an increasingly higher speed, with unforeseen events such as pandemics, war, and terror – and as part of this a worry not only about how the narrator will handle it, but also about his family. Yet, as the title so hopefully puts it: I hope you are doing ok.

The Kamelia Box
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2023 · 304 pp

The Kamelia Box

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

At Sommersholm, the Adler family, the servants and the household stand on the threshold of the year 1867.During the Christmas ball, Rose caused a scandal because she invited her horse groom Torkel. Rose's father, County Administrator Adler is furious, and wants to send off his daughter to the family in Denmark. But no one can control another's heart, least of all one that is young and in love.Meanwhile, Alise despairs over the engagement between Birk and Miss Aurelia Collett – the beautiful but unscrupulous merchant's daughter from Christiania, who does everything in her power to capture the heart of Sommersholm's heir.One of Alice's dearest possessions is the kamelia box, which she inherited from her grandmother, and which once belonged to Mrs. Juliane, the Countess at Sommersholm. But Alise discovers that the box is more than a testimony to her grandmother's life as a chambermaid. For decades, it has hidden another story, from another life destiny.

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The Chimera Awakens
Literature and Fiction2023 · 192 pp

The Chimera Awakens

Lina Ulvestad Halås

‘’Someone else’s hands are washing me in the morning, doing my make-up, lifting my hair up and tying it in a bun. I am watching someone touch someone else’s body but can feel the touch on my own.” A lecture at the university discusses the possibility of freezing the brain of people who have died, with the idea to wait for the technology which allows them to bring the brain back to life in a new body. Kim volunteers, without further consideration. Suddenly she wakes up in the future. The technology they have been waiting for now exists, but the programme is shut down due to concerns that it is unethical. Kim is one of very few so-called chimeras. Kim was a committed student with a future at a Greenpeace arrangement in Antarctica, but the life she used to live belongs to the past and she accepts a job as a maid at a hotel. After a while her memory starts to fail, and large parts of her life disappear from her. She begins to seek refuge in the world of games, and her avatar gradually becomes a larger part of the life Kim believes to be living. The Chimera Awakens addresses popular culture and the role of modern technology and its influence on our lives.

Dear Brother, Little Sister
Literature and Fiction2023 · 272 pp

Dear Brother, Little Sister

Sophia Saenger

Lucie and Kristoffer have grown up together, but they are not biological siblings. They were both foster children in an extremely religious home and have always had a special relationship. On summer holiday with two friends and Kristoffer’s girlfriend Amanda a worrying situation unfolds. Flashbacks to their teenage years tell the story of how an “illegal” sexual tension builds up between Lucia and Kristoffer, and in the present Kristoffer wobbles between his foster sister and his girlfriend. He resists it but is nonetheless pulled to Lucie again and again, she seems to have a magnetic power over him. Is the relationship between the foster siblings natural, or is it in fact problematic in the way their surroundings seem to signalise? Is it mostly harmful because those around them say it is? This is an uncomfortable novel propelled forward by a strong drive and a sharp look at taboo relationships.

Marathon Shots
Literature and Fiction2023 · 96 pp

Marathon Shots

Geir Nummedal

A man in the middle of his life is preparing for his first marathon in Dresden, but ends up going all in the night. Still, he receives a starting number and begins running. In Marathon Shots we follow a 42195-metre-long race with many associative digressions along the way. With music in his ears the rhythm of the race propagates through both in his body and mind, where the stream of consciousness of the marathon runner becomes its own race within a race. Before he reached the end line, he has also run through his life. He passes the parks of Dresden, crosses bridges, sees a bald man running with a pineapple attached to his head, he takes shots from drinking stations that often miss his mouth, instead splashing on his shirt or the ground. The experience of running mixes with the experiences of life, from erotic fantasies to childhood memories, glimpses of his father at work in the welding hall, the letters his father sent home from a worktrip to China. The author Dag Solstad has stated that joggers are outside walking their fear of death, which is very possible. The narrator of Geir Nummedal’s Marathon Shots isn’t scared of walking his fear of death, walking his rooms of remembrance, which has resulted in this particularly lively read.

My Dotted Sister
Literature and Fiction2023 · 80 pp

My Dotted Sister

Hilde Charlotte Blomberg

Hilde Charlotte Blomberg’s debut poetry collection My Dotted Sister is about learning to live with mental disorder. My Dotted Sister is a prose poem collection about longing, joy, loneliness, help, art, and cats. But mostly it’s about being oneself. The plot? It’ll be a terrific journey, all the way to Japan, looking for the famous Yayoi Kusama, with a mourning nurse called Grete tagging along. The style? Minimalistic, naïve, wild, imaginative, dreaming. The inspiration? Yayoi Kusama and her dotted universe. Art! The life of the artist! (Looking for a family, someone to be close to, is an important topic for the author.) Loneliness, being different, being allowed to be different.

Mother When She Waves from the Train
Literature and Fiction2023 · 104 pp

Mother When She Waves from the Train

Emely Benedicte Kahrs

Emely Benedicte Kahrs’ poetry collection Mother When She Waves from the Train is about Nelly and her mother who live and eat and do their laundry together, about the need to break out, the fear of losing, dancing, falling in love, abortion pills, liberation. Nelly starts by writing poetry on napkins.

The Narcisisst
Literature and Fiction2023 · 240 pp

The Narcisisst

Erling Simon

Jim’s grandma is dying, and he has to clean up the empty house. This process puts him in touch with a childhood that wasn’t necessarily happy, and which made him, despite his talent, quit playing music, the thing he loved the most, when he was 15 years old. His childhood is well documented by his father, an internationally recognised photo artist. His father’s pictures of Jim as a child shows Jim and his older brother, Aksel, in scenes characterised by jealousy and fighting over their father’s favour. Jim’s artistic gifts made him and his father very close, but the weeks alone in his grandma’s house leads Jim to find signs of how his father’s actions poisoned his relationship with his older brother. The Narcissist is a novel about fathers and sons. About the mechanisms which hold them together, about a father’s self-assertion, and about love and trust that grow weaker. Intimate and controlled language shows up close how our view of reality sometimes can be shaken up; an existential experience which many can recognize. This is a novel about those who have stopped trusting their loved ones, or who no longer has their loved ones’ trust.