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The Girl in the Snow
UpLit2023 · 272 pp

The Girl in the Snow

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

The Girl in the Snow is the beginning of a series set at the Sommersholm manor in the 1800s. Sommersholm is a venerable manor that has belonged to the Adler family for generations. Two young women with very different lives live there: the landowner's daughter, Rose, and Alise, a maid. Alise's grandmother got to know the Adler family's darkest secrets as a young chambermaid at Sommersholm. Until the day she died, she never revealed to anyone what she saw and heard. But the secrets did not follow her to the grave. After three years in Australia, the heir of Sommersholm, Birkthorn Adler, returns home to Norway. He went there against his father's will, and three years of separation have not dampened the strife between father and son. When he left, Alise was a young girl, but she has not forgotten the landowner's son who saved her life on a freezing cold winter night many years ago.

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Rainbow Trout and Boiled Rice
Literature and Fiction2023 · 80 pp

Rainbow Trout and Boiled Rice

Terje Dragseth

A couple cooks dinner together and their conversation moves from everyday reflections about the meal to living “half as a whole, or the other way around”. Around their legs their cats are living their best lives. As always in author Dragseth’s poetry there is a strong creative power combined with the desire to explore the edges and possibilities of language. An easy-to-read and thought-provoking little book that is equally as suitable in the living room, on an airplane, or a train as on the beach.

Rich Are Those Who Have the Forest
Literature and Fiction2023 · 192 pp

Rich Are Those Who Have the Forest

Amalie Kasin Lerstang

Eva Brattheim lives a normal life in a normal town. One thing she particularly enjoys: Going for walks in the nearby forest. One day Eva reads in the local paper that there are plans to build a motorway straight through the forest where she takes her walks. To Eva it is obvious – the road must be stopped. But how? With help from her capable sister, Eva attempts to navigate her way through the local government’s bureaucratic structures and the hierarchy of the local community. How does one actually write an opinion piece? And who wants to disagree with people they look up to, who wants to disagree with their handy neighbour who needs a job and who’s also in a feud with the county antiquary? Midway through the process, Eva falls head over heels for a brilliant case manager in the local government. Could she be the one to help Eva stop this motorway? Rich Are Those Who Have the Forest is a funny and subtle novel about impotence and love, about the relationship between human and nature getting lost, about an all-consuming crush, pine trees, garbage bins, about the fear of having an opinion in the local newspaper, and not least: about standing in the way of development. «... tender and comical ... The forest is kind and smells good, says a friend of mine, and I think that there is something fundamentally kind, a closeness and slightly modest about this novel, which I appreciate. Lerstang does not paint a high sky above her topics, but it is a stroke of heaven that I, as a reader, can thrive under.»Klassekampen «... a gem about what it's like to losing a piece of your local nature.»Morgenbladet «A funny and subtle novel with a serious, underlying topic.»Sandefjords blad

The Rooms' Book
Literature and Fiction2023 · 88 pp

The Rooms' Book

Helene Imislund

Helene Imislund’s poetry follows a child through the first hazy memories of a room. The poems move through the concrete and the experienced, between rooms that once were and places that still exist. And when the rooms are explored specifically, the question of memory also arises – which rooms are we able to remember? Is it possible to remember an event without remembering the room where it took place?

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Red danger
Literature and Fiction2023 · 192 pp

Red danger

Helene V. Nortvedt

Evy is 27 years old, an age where many have managed to establish themselves and sorted out their lives, but she’s only managed to isolate herself from others. Something pulls her back to her teenage years when her mother’s relationship with Rune broke down. Evy hasn’t seen Rune in 15 years. Rune with the golden, wavy hair, brown leather jacket and red shoes with white laces. At least that’s what he looks like in her memories. Is she romanticising him? Rune has another family now, and Evy knows where he lives. Several times she goes to his house and sees the lights on through the windows. One day she gets in touch with Rune. It doesn’t turn out the way she imagined. But what did she imagine? The relationship between children and parents in a family of divorce is explored in many novels, but what about the step-parents? Those who are present through the most formative years of growing up, acting as a parent? What happens when they disappear out of the children’s life? Red Danger is a literarily strong debut novel about the connections and boundaries that can exist between humans.

From Samuel Pedersen's Travel Journal
Literature and Fiction2023 · 128 pp

From Samuel Pedersen's Travel Journal

Knut Ødegård

Knut Ødegard is a maximalist poet, with a lush imagination and equally lush language. This is also true for this year’s long poem: From Samuel Pedersen’s Travel Journal. Samuel Pedersen goes on a road trip with Inga in a home-made mobile home, bought on Gumtree for very little money. A purchase that isn’t necessarily a great deal. During the road trip Samuel writes a journal, where both events on the trip as well as his thoughts and imaginations take place. Inga is the same woman who comes along on their trip in 2019, but Samuel is just as interested in Olga, who died in a parachute accident in 2017. The journey takes them around North-Western Norway through rain and thunder, while the priest and the pope, relatives and roots, birds and mopeds show up in their own unique ways.

Songs from Trees
Literature and Fiction2023 · 128 pp

Songs from Trees

Ellen Mari Thelle

Songs from Trees opens with a wake. Elise's mother is dead. But what the family and friends speak of the most during this time of mourning, is Elise. They tell stories of the extraordinary and indispensable person she was. As needy and bothersome as she was wild and beautiful. This is a novel about how death follows death, and creates life. A novel about how much, or how little, another person can mean for their surroudings, and how, after passing, that person disappears into them.

Last man on his back
Literature and Fiction2023 · 320 pp

Last man on his back

Arild Stavrum

Albert is 20 years old and works at the dock, but when he’s not working, he is practicing wrestling. All the time. He lives in a small, worn house with his mum and two younger brothers. He’s never known his father. The year is 1936. In Europe something is brewing. The dock is bustling. Most people are working with the cuttlefish, some aren’t as lucky and have to make a living making moonshine alcohol. Albert only has one competitor in his own town: Johnny Wiik, a rich boy who’s also his boss at the dock. When they were children, they used to play together, now they fight together. Competing for a spot in the Olympic squad. And it’s not just any old Olympic Games we’re talking about, it’s the Olympic Summer Games in Berlin, where Hitler himself will be in the stands. Arild Stavrum writes about sport and exercise, about two men on the mat, in such a way that we can smell the action, notice the muscles tensing, the bodies being thrown around, the sweat that flows, and the test of strength that costs everything. Last Man on His Back is a different and entertaining historical novel which amongst other things poses the eternal question: Is it right for a young man to give everything he has got to what he loves, to want to become the best in the world, without any monetary profit in sight, when he has a family at home relying on him?

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave
Literature and Fiction2023 · 408 pp

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave

Olav Løkken Reisop

Lars Mytting meets Karl Ove Knausgård in this timely novel about climate activismWhat happens if someone attacks your best friend or someone else you love? What wouldn’t you do to defend that person? And what if your best friend is the nature? What do you think is acceptable to do in an attempt to stop the escalating violence against nature? Sit-in protests? Signature collections? Mass murder? Can one go too far? Should the defenders be stopped or protected? In Olav Løkken Reisop’s We will be known forever by the tracks we leave, someone is about to put their foot down on behalf of nature. But who? At the same time, a mysterious fog is spreading throughout the forest. The birds are getting sick and animals and humans are increasingly acting strange. What is really happening to the world?The novel alternates between the present and the past, between several perspectives and portrays many different people in the village. Gradually, hidden connections between them are revealed, and their lives soon seem as intertwined as mushroom threads beneath the ground.ReviewsThe Last of Us «Kerstin Ekman meets Twin Peaks in Olav Løkken Reisops complex eco-thriller. (...) The novel's plot is permeated by the natural landscape of Hurdal, often masterfully described by Reisop. (...) We will be known forever by the tracks we leave is deliciously un-Norwegian (while also very Norwegian), ambitious work with a lot to sink your teeth into, and its atmosphere and rich universe grow when I, after reading, flick through it again.»Klassekampen Bokmagasinet«Olav Løkken Reisop must be said to hit the modern zeistgeist squarely in the face with the crime-like novel of ideas We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. (...) Reisop is at his best when his gaze is directed to the grandure of the small things. He describes the slowness of nature with almost the same glow as someone in love.»Vinduet

The Snow Leopard
Mystery and Crime2023 · 400 pp

The Snow Leopard

Grethe Bøe

The Snow Leopard is a thrilling journey through the treacherous landscape of the Arctic, as the dedicated fighter pilot, Ylva Nordahl, save the world from the threat of the fifth colonists. The powerful nations of the USA, Russia, and China vie for control of the Arctic and its valuable resources. As the stakes grow higher, Ylva finds herself drawn into a deeper conflict: One that pits traditionalism against Western liberalism, and which threatens to tear the world apart. Unknown forces are planning a terror attack on one of NATO’s nuclear-powered submarines on Svalbard, and the only one who can stop it is Ylva. Following the success of Mayday, Ylva Nordahl is back in another political thriller with fast-paced action, a gripping plot, and nuanced exploration of contemporary politics and global power struggles. It is a story about sacrifice, courage, and the fight for survival in a rapidly changing world, and it will keep you on the edge of your seat from first to last page. «Two years ago Grethe Bøe made her debut as a crime/thriller-writer with Mayday, and I stated it was the best debut I'd ever read in the genre. Now figther pilot Ylva Nordahl and Bøe have returned in the sequel The Snow Leopard, and it is just as good.»Tidens krav, five/six stars

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Murmur
Literature and Fiction2023 · 208 pp

Murmur

Cornelius C. Steinkjer

Lyder Alving buys a flat to live in with Rebecca. But shortly after Lyder realises he isn’t able to live with Rebecca and he impulsively moves out. At a funeral a few months later, he meets the more stable Hedvig, and a quiet love triangle unfolds. Lyder is stuck between Rebecca’s turbulent lifestyle, and the monotone, continuous existence of Hedvig. Murmur depicts how the day to day can look like with bipolar disorder. Instead of focusing on the extremities, the author puts the focus on the thoughts that arrive alongside the mood swings, and the constant doubt regarding which life you’re supposed to be living: A life full of mood swings, or the stable life that society appears to demand.

The Mirror’s Memory
Literature and Fiction2023 · 104 pp

The Mirror’s Memory

Sigurd Helseth

The Mirror’s Memory is the manuscript author Sigurd Helseth handed in right before he passed away in 2021. This book also contains a collection of the poetry he left behind. The poems cover a range of topics, from the gaze of children and act of playing to the clear thoughts and calmness of the elderly. The book takes us on a journey through seasons and the rhythms of nature, considers birds in the sky and makes us feel the soil between our hands. All together the poems show off a poet with a strong mastery of language, form and imagery.