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A Year in the Woods
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 208 pp

A Year in the Woods

Torbjørn Ekelund

As a boy he used to dream of hazardous expeditions to unmapped regions. Thirty years later he came to understand that the dream would never come true. He did not have the guts. And besides, there were no unmapped regions left. But nature was still there. He decided to make his dreams real, just downscale it a bit. He packed his backpack and spent twelve lonesome nights in the woods, and the result is this book. A Year in the Woods is the antitheses of great expeditions. There is no hunger or famish, no dangerous predators, no fighting for life and death. But it is a book about seeing nature and about our idea of being outdoors. It is a book about the changing of the seasons, about finding the closer parts of nature and about how little it actually takes to experience an adventure. But first and foremost, it is a book about one man trying to find the way back to the forest where he spent so much time as a child. The era of great expeditions is over. Now is the time for micro expeditions.A refreshingly modest style with liberating little observations in an appealing low tempo about occasional escape from the daily grind.DAGBLADET Thorbjørn Ekelund has written a little pearl of a book about twelve micro expeditions. It is incredibly inspiring to read about how a need to be outdoors has resulted in twelve nights under the stars, one in each of the years twelve months. Ekelund is a true inspiration to all of us who are in a time clinch and would want to spend more time out in nature.NRK

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THE ISLAND
Children's Books2014 · 64 pp · Age 3 - 9

THE ISLAND

Eli Hovdenak

Bettina and Bertil are going fishing. They’re really looking forward to it. They row around at sea and find themselves in the most bizarre situations without even realising. The sea is full of large and small animals such as elephants, crocodiles and sea trolls. When they fall into the crocodile’s mouth they think they are in a Cave full of stalactites. The elephant’s trunk is just a bridge to them, and when they head back without any fish, Bertil says: ’At least that will please the fish, Bettina.’ The funniest thing about this book is that the reader sees things completely differently from Bertil and Bettina, and feels both powerful and worried about them. But everything Works out and everyone is happy. Bertil and Bettina are two very sweet, scruffy birds of uncertain origin, with large beaks and caps. The text comprises only dialogue between them. Eli Hovdenak’s illustrations and writingare both surreal and funny. ‘Funny, imaginative and a joy to behold [...] The way in which the illustrations and text contradict each other is effective on many levels. It will appeal to a child’s sense of critique and elevate the young reader. They will understand that the good-natured animals are misinterpreting everything and take great delight in correcting them! The disparity between the text and illustrations is very funny indeed.’DAGBLADET ‘This new picture book by Eli Hovdenak radiates assurance and trust in the art of living. [...] A story about how everything tends to work out despite all of the dangers. And that is undoubtedly what life is like for many of us: we live in fear yet are unaware of most of the dangers, and things generally work out for the best. [...] [The illustrations], with their diffuse contours and pale colours are perfect for this story.’VÅRT LAND‘After 30 years as a painter, artist Eli Hovdenak has finally found her niche as a creator of children’s books. This is a lavish picture book that can be read by children of all ages: as a comic adventure story in a sort of Lilliputian tradition, as satire on the topic of marriage or as a highly entertaining and humoristic story – a cheerful piece of “music” in the finest watercolours. She is also in the process of creating new picture books.’BARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO

Rights soldSold to China and Denmark
27 402 letters with blank spaces
2013 · 116 pp

27 402 letters with blank spaces

Audun Mortensen

27 402 letters with blank spaces (27 402 tegn med mellomrom) marks the end of Audun Mortensens Arial Trilogy, that started with Everyone Tells me how Good I am, in case I become it (Alle forteller meg hvor bra jeg er i tilfelle jeg blir det). In this collection contains works refined over time. They are complete, firm, sufficient, individual, known, disclosing, available, obvious, influenced, effective, directed, addicted, distinct, planned, controlled, whole, limited, isolated, confirming, systematic, established, predictable, explainable, remarkable, evident, understandable, allowed, natural, harmonious, singular, varied, interpretable, discovered, persistent, multifarious, collected, tidy, flexible, partible, bendable, influential, public, reasoned, repeatable, comprehensive, impractical, searchable, actual, woven, active, describable, situated, recognizable, analysing, limited, unavoidable, sustainable, changeable, defined, provable, consequent, lasting, realized, unique, complex, specific, rational, regulated, uniform, lone, given, involved, maintained, coherent, arranged, restrictive and presented.

Anna's Heaven
Children's Books2013 · 48 pp

Anna's Heaven

Stian Hole

On a day in which everything aches and spikes fall from the skies, Anna turns the world on its head. She takes her daddy on a fantastic journey all the way to the bottom of the sky where the invisible ones live. Daddy is careworn and quiet, and Anna helps both herself and her daddy through the most difficult of days. Annas himmel is an exceptionally beautiful book about overcoming grief, succeeding in this without becoming an overly sad or sentimental tale. Stian Hole is one of our foremost picture book artists, and Annas himmel is a work of art, both in terms of text and illustrations. ‘Stian Hole communicates the great life-changing questions with huge creative seriousness and moving poetic lightness of touch. ... These are images which one can never finish with, so multi-layered that one could read this book hundreds of times, one after another, and constantly discover new meanings... Hole combines wonder, unease and love in an utterly readable way. Always, with precisely measured amounts of humour and gravity. ... Hole brings the children along on a brave and poetic journey and takes them seriously as thoughtful, inquiring human beings. This is a curriculum for growing up. ... Let all children have a share in Hole’s universe.’VG ‘An exceptionally beautiful work by Stian Hole. ... One of our most frequently awarded writers of picture books and one who doesn’t worry about pleasing others. That attitude makes for good literature. An outstandingly beautiful as well as meaningful picture book. ... the visual and verbal contents of Annas himmel fuse as the sense of the words and the images are seen together.’ Dagbladet ‘Hole’s masterly way of addressing you through his images offers comfort about the resting-place of the dead. ... readers who want to study the details will have many happy hours ahead and will also find visual references to Alice in Wonderland. Hole’s work is rich in both emotional and visual symbolism but, above all, his picture books are exciting and interesting.’ Aftenposten ‘Awesomely beautiful … Few Norwegian creators of picture books have ever reached Sian Hole’s recognition. His books about Garmann come close to being modern classics. Now, with Annas himmel, Hole has delivered another masterpiece. ... Stian Hole has never created anything more colourful. And he has never let his imagination as free as he has here, even though the recognisable links to ordinary life constantly run through the illustrations. Also, Hole’s text has never been sparser, as he offers more and more freedom to us who look and read; he challenges the imaginative capacity of both young and old and points to new routes into the most marvellous experiences. ... Everything hangs together and is so neatly done that it is a pleasure to be one of his readers and so constantly discover new links, new possibilities of interpretation, new details.’ NRK P2 ‘Stian Hole’s easily recognisable world of images as seen on book covers or in children’s books is often so beautiful that I gasp. The great stories about the boy called Garmann with the intensely detailed illustrations that children and adults value so highly – far beyond the borders of this country. ... When the world becomes so absurd that it feels as if someone “makes nails rain from the sky”, the child attempts to guide the adults away from the dangerous reality. ... Together, they travel floating in the air and swimming through the world of Anna’s imagination. Like Alice and the author [Lewis] Carroll in Wonderland, like Tinker Bell and Peter Pan in Neverland. Young and old will find endless discoveries and opportunities to think things over.’ Drammens Tidende ‘Miraculous, wildly imaginative and fantastic … The book is rich in symbolism and strikingly lovely to look at – and amusing. ... Everything is fitted into an exquisite colour range, allowing each new page to present its own world while at the same time the unity, visual as well as narrative, is always maintained. ... For children, Annas himmel will offer an adventure to enjoy and for adults, a unique opportunity to travel with them on a journey of the imagination.' Vårt Land‘Norway’s Stian Hole does it once more. He has written and illustrated a philosophical and seductive picture book for children of all ages. His new picture book strikes just that special Hole note. … Much has been written about death in books for children. But no one writes and creates picture books like Hole does. Also, about death. … Hope is there on every page. Both in words and images.’ Nordhyske Stiftstidende – Six out of six ‘Stian Hole’s breathtakingly beautiful picture book is about the mother who has died and left behind her restless daughter Anna and her father who has grown rigid with grief. The detailed illustrations are unrivalled – like Edward Hopper images with added northern light. The book is not easy-going and not recommended for readers with weak nerves, but on the other hand, is utterly visionary.’ Politiken ‘Stian Hole’s lovely picture book Annas himmel shines a light into the tempting darkness of grief ... Despite the wealth of detail in the collages and the texts there is not one ounce of the accidental or superfluous in Annas himmel.’ Information

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Berlin
Narrative Non-fiction2013 · 448 pp

Berlin

Torgrim Eggen

This book is a portrait of a city and a work of modern Cultural history. Torgrim Eggen follows the fate of Berlin from the fall of the Kaiser in 1918 to the present day. In the 20th century, Berlin was the world's focus – from the Revolution through Nazism and the Cold War to a reunited city. There is still no European capital that concerns us more. This book portrays the city's brutal history, but also some of its extraordinarypersonalities like Marlene Dietrich, Rosa Luxemburg, Berthold Brecht, Willy Brandt, Albert Speer and David Bowie. The modern history of Berlin is a tale of many new beginnings, both in politics and in architecture. And the vision for the city is always the same, whether its origins are in the empire, the national socialist or the communist period: to control and overcome the changeability of Berlin and show it off as stable and lasting, indeed, eternal.From a personal point of view, Torgrim Eggen gives us an insightful and nuanced account of an irresistible city.‘The spectacular and quaint prevail in this book, but the new journalism style is actually quite fitting to Berlin's temperament and dramatic history. ... It is essentially a well-written and knowledgeable book. … Eggen is one of Norway’s few golden pens, an author who neither is capable of nor willing to write in a boring fashion.’Klassekampen ‘An interesting book, with emphasis on a Western perspective. ... He writes so well and thoroughly about the creation of Bowie's masterpiece ‘Heroes’ (both the song and the album) that tears appear in the corner of my eye.’Dagbladet

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Guardian of the Gate
Literature and Fiction2013 · 168 pp

Guardian of the Gate

Aksel Selmer

Bomvokteren is the tale of a young girl who inherits the job of gate guardian when her grandfather grows older and falls ill. The job involves watching the gate at a mountain pass, and the girl must live alone in a miserable cabin at the side of the road. It is a restricted and strange universe that is depicted; surrounded by the foggy and barren natural landscape around her, she continues her toil alone at the gate station as the cars come and go, occasionally making a stop. There are familiar elements within this story, but reality doesn't necessarily resemble what we know. The tale could as easily be set in the 1950s or 60s as it could in the near future. The living conditions differ from our own, and survival in the harshest of environments is key. ‘Norwegian Aksel Selmer surprises with a story about the conditions for goodness in an evil world that is equal parts beautiful, strange and grim. This is outstanding.’6/6,JYLLANDSPOSTEN‘Fascinating story about a young, naïve girl appointed to look after a turnpike on a lonely mountain. ... Publisher Jensen & Dalgaard found this hypnotising story by Norwegian Aksel Selmer, ... a small publisher that finds and publishes translated quality literature from abroad. And that is precisely what Bomvogtersken is.’WEEKENDAVISEN‘Myth and realism combine in Aksel Selmer’s fascinating Bomvogtersken. A world that is both mystifying yet familiar.’BERLINGSKE TIDENDE ‘Aksel Selmer has written a great novel. High time that the reading public discovered this author’s works.’DAG OG TID ‘It is what remains elusive and unresolved in Bomvokteren that attracts you. That you can never be quite certain elicits a mixed feeling of repulsion and enchantment – and that is what stimulates in new writing.’DAGSAVISEN ‘Bomvokteren is a fascinating novel that, among other themes, deals with how to survive, face up to challenges, be poor and totally under control of others and how to live at the intersection between two worlds.’FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

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Build Muscles!
Self Help2013 · 176 pp

Build Muscles!

Martin Norum / Benjamin Christensen

This is the book for all men who want a more muscular body, yet who haven't met their aim in spite of training at the gym. This book tells you everything you need to know about effective and correct weight-training, such as getting your diet right and how best to burn fat in order to look after your newly trained muscles. This is a book that takes advantage of the author's extensive knowledge to look at relevant theory, but is presented with practical use in mind in such a way that the reader is motivated to carry out the recommended exercises and improvements to diet suggested by the author. The book is supplemented with online video material, which the reader can access using the QR codes provided.

The Drowned Boy
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2013 · 224 pp

The Drowned Boy

Karin Fossum

Konrad Sejer is back! In Carmen Zita og døden, Sejer is very present indeed, not only as the thoughtful, incisive crime investigator but also the human being Konrad Sejer, with problems of his own to deal with. The picture of his beloved Elise hangs on the wall of his sitting room and, every day, he shares some thoughts with her. The dog Frank Robert, a Chinese Shar- Pei, is always at his side. His evenings usually end with a whisky with water and a lonely cigarette. This time, Skarre arrives at the scene first. A small child has drowned in a pond. One unguarded moment and the very worst thing has happened. The young parents are devastated and everything indicates that the death was an accident. But Skarre is taken aback by something about the mother, and tells Sejer of his impressions. As always in cases of sudden death, an investigation is begun and Carmen, the child’s mother, proves to be somebody rather special. Selfish, shallow, spoilt and crazily vain. This novel has everything you have come to expect from Karin Fossum’s crime fiction; a terrible incident and well-drawn, exciting pictures of the people involved, solid police work and a surprising turn of events. And, as ever, literary writing at a high level. ‘Karin Fossum is among our foremost authors, regardless of genre. This because of her unique ability to create real people and her deep understanding of the human soul. She has always mastered this, but never better than in Carmen Zita og døden.’Drammens Tidende‘As usual, Fossum shines with her descriptions of her characters and unpleasant exploration of the human soul. And no other couple of investigators have left such a mark in the souls of crime fiction readers than Konrad Sejer and Jacob Skarre.’Trønderavisa‘Among Fossum’s finest novels … another novel from Karin Fossum with a strong literary quality all the way, wisely distributed portions of revealing details and quivering suspense.’Dagsavisen‘Karin Fossum shows us how the crime novel can be more than sheer entertainment literature. … Well-written and gripping about the hidden murders.’Dagbladet ‘Around the fascinating Carmen character a room for reflection opens up, related to the much debated sorting society. To this comes Sejer’s and Skarre’s not entirely coordinated religious contemplations. … Karin Fossum always gives the reader the solid pleasure of being in good hands, simply because she has something to tell which exceeds the mastery of this genre’s machinery.’Aftenposten

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Chet Doesn’t Play Here
Literature and Fiction2013 · 80 pp

Chet Doesn’t Play Here

Lars Saabye Christensen

We meet the saxophonist Daniel. Obviously, he cannot play the trumpet like Chet Baker. That is precisely the point. Ever since Daniel was 13 years old and heard Chet Baker on the radio, Daniel has had just one single goal in life: to learn how to play with just that tone, so pure no one knows where it is coming from, the tone that is right for the moment when the soul slots into place.

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The Unseen
Literature and Fiction2013 · 256 pp

The Unseen

Roy Jacobsen

The Unseen is a monument over human courage and life-saving practical and social knowledge. This novel is set in the first half of the 20th Century on the island Barrøy. The island is small, there is only space for Ingrid’s family. Life on the island is difficult and the Barrøy family is poor, but certainly not without guts and skills. They live off of their small land, they have some livestock, they fish in the sea and make use of whatever the waves wash ashore. The dramatic ocean and the seasonal changes make for a plot in itself. Roy’s descriptions of man and nature are breath taking. The family’s love for their environment is brilliantly communicated. A life somewhere else is unthinkable to them. This is their paradise on Earth. The Barrøy family is depicted with great wisdom, sensitivity and narrative skill. Roy turns their practical knowledge into little gems of stories with metaphorical and existential depth. Rights sold to 30 territoriesThe quiet island life of a Norwegian family is evoked in sparse, sublime prose.THE FINANCIAL TIMESThis is a profound interrogation of freedom and fate, as well as a fascinating portrait of a vanished time, written in prose as clear and washed clean as the world after a storm.THE GUARDIAN...as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read.(...) There is a unique universality about The Unseen. Jacobsen’s prose is beautiful, clean, poised and plain speaking, but there are interludes of Shakespearean grandeur in the dazzling descriptions of storms. The family seems to accept these vicious tempests as necessary rituals. (...) Yes, there is a terrific story but it is the writing that will cause most readers to read this book at one sitting.THE IRISH TIMESA beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a brilliant piece of work . . . Rendered beautifully into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, The Unseen is a towering achievement that would be a deserved Booker International winner. NEW EUROPEAN '(…) the pages are packed full of quiet humour, charming personalities and surprising events. All of this is wrapped up in a dense, poetic and wonderfully imaginative imagery that made me wish the book would never end.' Brønnøysunds Avis, 6/6 'Roy Jacobsen holds his own among the masters and it would be odd if he weren’t on the list of nominations for the Nordic Council literature prize. With this novel, the small people are no longer unseen. A new monument has been raised to the coastal folk.' Varden 6/6 An extraordinary depiction of a remote area'Equipped with a playful, subtly shifting and omniscient narrative voice. Jacobsen drifts in and out of the different family members, and gives each of them a strong and vibrant presence in the text. (…) Roy Jacobsen’s new novel is quite simply literature of a high, high class.' Aftenposten Roy Jacobsen’s The Unseen is a modern masterpiece about poverty in Norway 'Roy Jacobsen’s new book will stand as an utterly central novel in Norwegian literature. (…) Few Norwegian authors are capable of conjuring up such contrasts in such powerful language: on a par with the best of the sagas, and of Jewish and Greek narrative art.' Klassekampen Respect for seriousness 'In The Unseen, Roy Jacobsen shows why he is one of our most important authors. (…) Now I’m reading about falling snow and enjoying very single word. This is a rare thing because, as a reader, I could die of the boredom these sorts of descriptions provoke in me. His descriptions aren’t like those of Hamsun – it’s not a question of copying – but in both cases we sense the impression nature has had on them as authors. (…) This is an excellent novel. The level of precision is joyous the language is poetic. Roy Jacobsen stays the course. He has the gaze and skills it takes to convey the truth about humanity. The result is great art.'Vårt land

Rights soldSold to 24 territories
The Blind God
Mystery and Crime2013 · 432 pp

The Blind God

Elisabeth Gulbrandsen / Chris Tvedt

In the previous Tvedt crime novel, Av jord er du kommet, we met his new hero, Edvard Matre, investigator with the crime squad. Matre is also the leading character in the new crime story, Den blinde guden. An exceptionally brutal robbery ends in murder. Edvard Matre and his team are investigating. The trail leads them to a group of violent right-wing extremists, but, to Edvard’s total frustration, he is told by the PST, the Norwegian security services, to keep off. Which is easier said than done. In the end, Edvard has to make up his mind about what matters most: ‘The safety of the realm’ or a woman’s life. At the same time, he also has to deal with the growing suspicion that one of his own people may have lives on his conscience. Chris Tvedt’s previous crime novels are sold to the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland and Ukraine. ‘There is little more to say except to congratulate on a smartly completed work ... Superbly exciting and intelligently plotted.’VG‘Den blinde guden is Chris Tvedt’s second book about DI Edvard Matre. The first one was good, the second one just as good.’Dagbladet ‘This is a story which accelerates immensely. The tensions built into several storylines are tightened at the same time throughout the 92 brisk chapters. Well plotted, elegantly invented and, definitely, no happy end. This will become a TV series, the only question is how soon.’Bergens Tidende‘Crime fiction with thriller features and multiple tense, slowly unravelling storylines.’Adresseavisen‘Chris Tvedt and Elisabeth Guldbrandsen occasionally write great passages that are fit to be filmed. The heart-breaking opening scene and the videoed account of the robbery hit the reader where it hurts.’Bergensavisen‘Den blinde guden is one of the more believable narratives that have so far emerged out of this autumn’s flow of crime fiction. Believability doesn’t make any less exciting than everybody else’s hunts for serial killers, but rather the opposite.’Dagsavisen

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The Last Fox Hunt
Literature and Fiction2013 · 272 pp

The Last Fox Hunt

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

The Last Fox Hunt (Den siste revejakta) was Ingvar Ambjørnsen´s great break through, first published in 1983. Unvarnished and raw, with acid black humour, the story is whipped out of the big city frenzy. The story of group of outsiders where the law beyond the law is rock hard and brutal, but where there is also love and friendship. The Last Fox Hunt is intensely exciting, and so well written that it will make your cold sweat run. This novel is a cult classic for readers of all ages. When you are neck high in shit, it is time to get out. Let it all go, find your girl and reach for the dream about a quiet life. Carl F. Vang just has to do the last, great deal - receiving a shipment in the middle of the fjord on a stormy night, deal with certain people and at the same time stay clear of his enemies. After that.... From the introduction written by Ingvar Ambjørnsen for the 30 year anniversary of the novel: I was writing all winter in a dark studio apartment in Grünerløkka - in those days a part of the city almost without any bars or other temptations. The books published at the time where, to say it in drug jargon, a total bust. The publishers being tricked by stories about girls doing shots of LSD before going to school, and so on, in that style. One step away from syringes filled with marijuana. Both the police and the media did not know the difference between hard drugs like heroin and morphine, and soft drugs like weed. Well, they seriously still don´t know. This was why I wanted to write a Norwegian novel about how things really went down, from an environment that I knew as the back of my hand.