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Before the Snow Arrives
Literature and Fiction2012 · 464 pp

Before the Snow Arrives

Britt Karin Larsen

Poverty rules in the Finn Forest. People are leaving for Christiania or even America, and many of the smallholdings are abandoned. But this book, fourth in the critically acclaimed series about the Finn Forest community, also offers hope. Noppi-Mattis is still using magic runes to protect against the threat of bad times to come; Lina and Taneli's youngest daughter Martha has promised her parents that Mostamägg will never stand empty. ‘A monument to Finnskogen. ... Everything is described in superb language, the characters come across as vivid and true-to-life and the descriptions of nature are brilliant. The author’s awareness of the interactions between plants, people and animals is impressive. Historical novel series will never get better than this.’ VG ‘Magnificent! ... This is literature on the grand scale, also by international standards. ... It’s the best! ... It is like intoxication but one that you want to last and last.’DAGBLADET ‘Warm and intense ... Britt Karin Larsen impresses with the skill with which she sustains both the intensity and the huge scope of her Finnskogen novels. ... She continues to produce superlative novels.’HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD ‘Britt Karin Larsen has now written the fourth novel in the series about the people in Finnskogen, and she has yet again done it with complete engagement and deep insight, in audacious narrative passages that deal with brutal fate as well as with her magical, mystical sense of liaison with nature.’DAG OG TID ‘The author combines extensive knowledge, understanding and also skill in the art of storytelling. The novels about Finnskogen by Britt Karin Larsen are among the most powerful and dramatic tales that contemporary literature has to offer.’ NRK P2

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Hello Down There!
Children's Books2012 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 9

Hello Down There!

Anna Fiske

Hallo der nede! is modelled on the same principle as the other Hallo books by Anna Fiske. Previously, we have been able to follow life on Earth, in the city and on another planet. Now we find out what happens underground. We follow six insects for sixteen months, and readers themselves can also find and see other things changing from one month to the next. A lot of exciting things happen underground. Caves, swimming pools and banqueting halls are built. The book starts in July and finishes in November of the following year. Hallo der nede! is a treasure chest for anyone who likes to search and find and to immerse themselves in lots of small funny details.

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The Hole
Children's Books2012 · 64 pp · Age 6 - 9

The Hole

Øyvind Torseter

'Hello, I've discovered a hole in my apartment ... it moves around ... yes ... if you could come and look at it ... bring it down to you, you say … how … hello!' The protagonist has discovered a hole and tries to find an explanation. He seeks expert advice. But not everything can be explained. Perhaps he will just have to accept that it's there. The Hole (Hullet) has simple, expressive drawings by pen and computer. The hole is punched right through the book, so it exists in real life.The book won the prize for Norways most beautiful book in 2013, as well as the French Prix Jeune Alber. It was also nominated to the Brage Prize in 2012. ‘… a stylish and surreal picture book… line drawings combined with a minimal use of colour lends the book a stylish and elegant appearance. The book looks much like a graphic novel, where each spread resembles an enlarged comic book square. With few details, attention is drawn towards simple points on each page, making the story quick to read and easy to understand for readers young and old. At the same time it raises a whole host of questions, both concrete and abstract, and invites several perusals. It is fortunate that the pages are sturdy – this is a book that will quickly become well-thumbed.’ DAGBLADET 'Quite simply masterful work, once again.' HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD ‘The text is short, but the illustrations surrounding the hole make the book dynamic. The book encourages discussions relating to the illustrations and the hole, and it can be read many times!’ FREDRIKSTAD BLAD ‘Humorous and imaginative. It will entertain people from the age of 3 to the age of 100. … This is a delightful play with reality and imagination. … What is brilliant about this book is the idea of the hole, which remains at the same place, but still appears to move around.’ VÅRT LAND 'A charming and ingenious children’s book that is similarly sure to charm mums and dads.' DAGSAVISEN

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A Hundred Thousand Hours
Literature and Fiction2012 · 136 pp

A Hundred Thousand Hours

Gro Dahle

2012 is a jubilee year twice over for Gro Dahle. She celebrates 25 years as a writer and also, on the 15th May, her 50th birthday. This is the background to this new edition of A Hundred Thousand Hours, her 1996 collection of poetry, which became a classic. Steinar Opstad has written a new Afterword and, recorded on an included CD, the author reads the entire collection. Gro Dahle is one of the most loved of contemporary poets. Audience (1987) was the first of her seven collections. She has written for both adults and children, in many genres, and been awarded several literary prizes. She is particularly well known for her poetic books for children on themes which are normally not well covered. Her first novel for adults was The House in the Snow (Huset i snøen, 2006). Gro Dahle is also a highly regarded literary consultant and lecturer. A Hundred Thousand Hours is a collection of poems about the family, especially about mothers and daughters. «Gro Dahle writes intensely well about the bonds between mothers and their children.»Margreta Tveisme, Dag og Tid«I feel as if exposed to a 100 000 kWh charge and am still in shock.»Jan Jakob Tønseth, Dagbladet«... a definitive breakthrough in a great record of writing: poetry that deserves the widest readership. I am at a loss to think how to recommend this book in the best possible way.»Tore Renberg, Stavanger Aftenblad

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What’s It About?
Children's Books2012 · 40 pp · Age 3+

What’s It About?

Max Estes

A boy climbs into a book and tries to find out what it is about. But that is easier said than done; the lights have gone out and pages have been torn out, some pages are too short, and in other places the letters are all helter-skelter. It only gets worse when he is told off by the reader for getting in the way. How can he manage to find out about the book's story then? A playful and imaginative meta-book. ‘Hva handler den om? is both sweet and absurd, and strange to those who are open to its play.’Barnebokkritikk‘… Max Estes’ surreal flights of imagination are still specifically philosophizing. … The ending arrives quite surprisingly and becomes a funny finale to a story where drawings and text play together.’Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen

Where Did I Come From?
Children's Books2012 · Age 3 - 9

Where Did I Come From?

Dag O. Hessen

This is an illustrated fact book about a girl who,one evening when she is going to bed, asks her dad: ‘Where did I come from?‘ Her dad explains: ‘You know you came from your mummy's tummy, we've spoken about it before’. ‘But before that?’ ‘Then you were just a little seed.‘ Then her father tells her about reproduction. ‘But before that?’ ‘Mummy came from Granny and Grandpa.’ ‘But before that?’ Her father tells her about Great-Granny, and her mother, and so on. ‘But before that?’ asks the girl. So we are taken back to our ape ancestors, and further and further back in evolutionary development, with material that always ends with the girl's insistent question ‘but before that?’ all the way back to the beginning of life. But it does not stop there – because what was there before that? An original and ambitious picture book explaining one of our greatest existential questions for younger children. An exciting and fascinating journey back in time and into the core of our own existence. Fantastic about evolution – one of the ten best children’s books of 2012This is the history of the entire universe, told in a clearer, fresher, shorter and more useful way than ever before. Hurray for biology professor Hessen and illustrator Markhus that takes us on this beautiful journey. A must-have book!MAGASINET MAMMA This book is really well done, the illustrations combine the best elements from science books with the freedom of expression that can be found within picture books.AFTENPOSTEN I am so thankful that there are writers like Dag O. Hessen. With his writing he brings the joy of enlightenment, taking the discoveries of scientists to the people. The book is engaging to both the one reading, and the child being read to.ROMERIKES BLAD It ought to come as no surprise that Hessen can introduce subjects through analogies, principles and models… and the topic is given an appealing human touch… Rune Markhus’ illustrations are important. The father is charmingly modern, and Frida is bright, but above all it is the system, principles, food chain and array of animals that impress.DAG OG TID

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I Should Have Locked You Up
Literature and Fiction2012 · 144 pp

I Should Have Locked You Up

Hilde Lindset

En far konfronterer sønnen med overgrepsbeskyldninger, en musikklærer kjører en omvei med sin altfor unge elev, og en helt alminnelig dverg utøver en merkelig makt over et reisende par. Hilde Lindset skriver konsentrerte noveller om det tilsynelatende hverdagslige, men som hele tiden presses mot det underforståtte og metaforiske.

I can see in the dark
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2012 · 224 pp

I can see in the dark

Karin Fossum

Riktor doesn´t ask the policeman why he has stormed into his house without knocking - he´s certain that someone has finally realised what happened that day. As the policeman questions him, however, Riktor realises that he´s being accused of something completely unexpected - something he has nothing to do with. But can Riktor convince the policeman that he´s innocent of one wrongdoing without revealing that he´s guilty of another, far more terrible, crime? The storytelling is outstanding...Dark, brilliant and guaranteed to leave you feeling queasy.CRIMEFICTIONLOVER Fossum´s elucidation of the criminally degenerate mind is first-rate.DAILY MAIL A superb writer of psychological suspense.NEW YORK TIMES Fossum writes humane thrillers, which perturb and chill.OBSERVER

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I Could Eat a Cow
Children's Books2012 · 72 pp · Age 3 - 12

I Could Eat a Cow

Gro Dahle

Exuberant, astute, astounding and warm verses about food from multiple award winning author Gro Dahle. A collection of poetry about hungry carpets, mysterious muffins, crispy friend gingerbread hearts and much, much more. When I think of chocolate, my thoughts end up covered in the stuff.

The Catalyst Murder
Mystery and Crime2012 · 352 pp

The Catalyst Murder

Hans Olav Lahlum

This is the third volume in the crime fiction series featuring K2 and Patricia: it takes place in Oslo and in the mountainous region of Valdres during August 1970. In Oslo, K2 witnesses a young woman desperately trying to catch a tram, but the doors slam shut in front of her face – the next time he sees her, she is dead. Killed by a shot, she is found between the tram tracks. A new test case for K2’s mental powers. The affair started two years earlier, when a group of politically active young people set out on a bothy walking tour in Valdres. One of them, the charismatic leader Falko Reinhardt, disappears during the night before 3 August. Now, K2’s murder victim turns out to have been Reinhardt’s girlfriend. It doesn’t take K2 long to realise that to solve the present-day murder he must go back in time, maybe further than just 1968. Once more, only Patricia can help him, but he fails to notice that she has her own problems to fight... ‘Lahlum in top form.’ VG ‘The historian Hans Olav Lahlum’s third crime novel is so thrilling it is impossible to put down.’ Fædrelandsvennen ‘Katalysatormordet is so entertaining and cleverly plotted that I will be happy to read 15 more books in this series.’ Dagbladet ‘All of the books in the series are very well-written and excellent. Katalysatormordet is perhaps the best one of them all.’ Telemarksavisa'Another highly political book, written as a traditional whodunnit, is The Catalyst Killing by Hans Olav Lahlum. This time we’re in Oslo in 1970, where a young woman is murdered at a train station. She turns out to be the fiancee and comrade of the charismatic leader of a breakaway communist group. He disappeared two years earlier, in a puzzle that has never been solved. Inspector Kristiansen, secretly mentored as ever by a housebound young genius, finds it unimaginable that the two cases aren’t linked. But why has Marie been killed now? Lahlum gives us a sympathetic look at the world of political sects and a satisfying mystery set in a time when the authorities all over western Europe lived in daily dread of red revolution.'MORNING STAR

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The Evil Bush
Children's Books2012 · 64 pp · Age 6 - 12

The Evil Bush

Eldrid Johansen

Den onde busken deals with the sisters Guri and Susanne and their mother, who inherits Aunt Stina's summer house. Aunt Stina went mad after she lost her daughter. On the path there is a bush that they think might have something to do with the disappearance. Then Guri's ferret suddenly disappears without a trace. Can a bush really be evil?

The Girl From the Other Side
Children's Books2012 · 56 pp · Age 6 - 12

The Girl From the Other Side

Eldrid Johansen

Håvard has moved to a new place. He is struggling to make friends and has just lost his grandmother. One day when Håvard is down at the shore, he meets a friendly girl. She has very unusual eyes and peculiarly cold hands. She comes from the other side…