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Haakon & Maud II
Narrative Non-fiction2004 · 564 pp

Haakon & Maud II

Tor Bomann-Larsen

The second independent volume of this biography deals with the dramatic highpoint in the story of Norway's first royals - Prince Carl, son King Fredrik VIII of Denmark, and Princess Maud, daughter of King Edward VII and granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The volume starts with the newly weds leaving England and moving into the flat that Maud's mother-in-law, Queen Louise, has prepared for them in Copenhagen. It finishes, nine years later, with them moving into an uninhabited palace in a kingdom where they have neither family nor friends. But the population welcomes them with open arms and celebrations. The reader is drawn into a story where illness, loss and longing and family conflicts are played out against a backdrop of civil unrest and power politics, where the father of a young family is suddenly offered the role of saviour to a nation on the brink of war. For the first time, the story of 1905 – the year that the Kingdom of Norway became an independent nation - is told from the perspective of the young royals. We learn why Norway chose Prince Carl and Princess Maud, but also why they chose Norway - for themselves and for their only child. If Bomann-Larsen manages to fulfil the promise of the first volume, this will be a biography of international standing.AFTENPOSTEN WINNER OF THE 2004 BRAGE PRIZE FOR BEST NON-FICTION.

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Innocentia Park
Literature and Fiction2004 · 222 pp

Innocentia Park

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Innocentia Park is a novel that differs from others by Ingvar Ambjørnsen. The narrative takes place in Germany, and the narrator, a German property magnate, is a whole new personality for this authorship. Innocentia Park is an existential novel about fatigue, disruption and decadence. And later, as I am walking home, the city seems transformed, renewed. The pungent smell of the wet soil as well as the wet asphalt. For weeks on end the sun has been warming the dust, heating it up, and now the dust is letting all its fragrances go in the mix that is the smell of late summer, wet late summer night. And as with a stroke of magic the wind (yes, the wind!) makes a crack in the clouds and reveal the moon once more, the great bit silvery moon; now lighting the river and street in a silvery light, and I am walking there splashing in my black moccasins; wet to the core and quite happy. For it does not take more. You bump into a little brown bear of a woman that you have not seen for a few days, the sluices of heaven open, and you´re standing there in the doorway of a pub, watching her dance in the street, while the rain pours down. Astrid. Without a P. The one I will never touch.

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The Pinecone Vacuumer
Children's Books2004 · 48 pp

The Pinecone Vacuumer

Bjørn F. Rørvik

The Fox is cleaning his den and strive with one of his carpets. Piglet helps out with shaking it, but just end up getting the carpet even dirtier. Then they hear that the farty goblin Papp has gotten himself a really powerful pinecone vacuumer. "Can it be used on carpets?" Fox asks."It can be used for anything" says the farty goblin. But Papp does not want to lend them the pinecone vacuumer, and Fox and Piglet has to use their best trix to get a hold of the wonder machine. This is yet another book by the creative Bjørn F. Rørvik and illustrator Per Dybvig, more innovative and vivacious than ever. The story is absurd and surreal, a true gift to anyone with this kind of humour - children and grown ups alike! This is the fifth book about Fox and Piglet.

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Partially Present
Literature and Fiction2003 · 182 pp

Partially Present

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

A dark collection of short stories about confused, lying and ruined men. Dramatic, intense and strong stories, also on understanding the concept of identity. These short stories by Ingvar Ambjørnsen have clear parallels in surrounding and narrative. They are all about men, and about lying, about folk dancing as a way of understanding your identity and reality. The stories are open, with quite a lot of action and dialogue, some of them almost small novels. All in all the collection contains seven short stories, introspective, unpleasant and Ambjørnsen at his very best. From the collection: My sister was driving. Kristian was sleeping in the back seat. I was smoking a cigarette. - "I should not have done it," she says. "It was wrong."- "Never mind. Don´t think about it, " I answered. - "I drank too much, and then I got all obsessed about..." She was biting her lip. - "You wanted to be seen by someone who couldn´t see." I suggested.- "No," she said. "I think it was the fact that he couldn´t see himself"On the other side of the valley two climbers where working their way down to the dead person. It was a beautiful day, sunny with a clear blue sky, and I was thinking that the trip over the mountain would be nice. If we could just keep quiet.

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Johannes Jansen Feels Different
Children's Books2003 · 40 pp · Age 3+

Johannes Jansen Feels Different

Henrik Hovland

Johannes Jensen is a crocodile that works in a tax office. He feels different and tries to find out why. Could it be that he wears a bow tie rather than a tie? Or because he has a tail? He ties up his tail but this leads to trouble balancing. He falls and hits himself and ends up at the emergency ward. There he meets Doctor Fjeld. This is a turning point for Johannes Jensen…

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China – A Journey on the River of Life
Narrative Non-fiction2003 · 432 pp

China – A Journey on the River of Life

Torbjørn Færøvik

It is almost like a fairy-tale: a journey through China on the Yangtze, the world's third longest river and the life blood of this vast nastion. A journey among 1,3 billion people. Few people are better suited to write from China than Torbjørn Færøvik. A historian specialising in China, he has travelled to the country close to 50 times in 29 years. "It sounded like a dream," he writes. "Before me the Long River flows - the very river of life." In Shanghai he boards the East Wind. Ninety-nine days and 6,400 kilometres later, he is on his knees by the river's source, in a wild landscape 5,500 metres above sea level. The reader travels with him, through the multitudinous reality of China, through its noisy everyday and its unique cultures. We encounter all kinds of people - Party bigwigs, weathered nomads, beggars with hands extended and billionaires feasting on roast duck sprinkled with gold dust - in a country whose history never ceases to enrapture. An adventure and learning journey second to none.

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Kurt Racks his Brain
Children's Books2003 · 136 pp · Age 6 - 9

Kurt Racks his Brain

Erlend Loe

Kurt has driven forklifts at Gunnar’s docks for years and years. But all the boats have stopped coming, ever since a brand new harbour was constructed nearby. Now, Kurt and Bud are hired to polish containers there. One day they hear strange noises. A whole bunch of people suddenly appear from one of the containers, looking like they come from all over the place. And there are serious problems, especially for Kurt and Anne-Lise. Little Bud, however, falls in love!

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The Snapdragon Family
Literature and Fiction2003 · 285 pp

The Snapdragon Family

Lars Saabye Christensen

´I had a good upbringing. Father died when I was twelve. Mum went to bed early. I was an only child.´ With these words Lars Saabye Christensen opens his novel, a chamber play set in the broad avenues behind the Royal Palace in mid-1960s Oslo. The narrator describes his upbringing from age 12 to 17, in a home thick with secrets, pretence, silence and sins of omissions. The father, a patent engineer, takes his own life on page one. The mother subsequently goes to bed for good, leaving the young narrator to grow up in the care of his bony aunt, whose outlook can darken even the brightest day. And in one scene, during a summer holiday, one of the father's investors who is visiting, manages to tell him: 'You are indeed your father's strangest patent.' Saabye Christensen's novel is about identity and shame. It is beautifully written, dark, and different."Ghastly good. This is something as rare as a book that really moves you, a book that stands out as something truly unique, just like the protagonist also does."VG "...a ruthless highlight in the authorship of Lars Saabye Christensen" DAGSAVISEN"He is poetic as ever, but reveal a dark dimension that lures us with depths and riddles. We want more of this!"DAGBLADET "The Snapdragon Family conveys something timeless. It is a great novel, which deserves many readers. Applause to Saabye Christensen!"TØNSBERGS BLAD "After so much has been said, I would like to reiterate that Saabye Christensen, with The Snapdragon Family, has written his best novel in my opinion."BERGENS TIDENDE

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Natt til fjerde november
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2003 · 176 pp

Natt til fjerde november

Karin Fossum

They sometimes thought that if Jonna had been younger, five or ten, perhaps, there would have been no question. Their daughter would most certainly have been killed. And later hidden and buried, or thrown in the sea. That would have made more sense. But she could never have run away! Where would she go? Jonna is seventeen and disappears without a trace on November 4th. There is no note or diary to explain what has happened, and after several weeks her parents, Magnhild and Jon, are still without answers. Is all of this their fault? This novel shows how alone human beings can be even within a family structure, as well as the brutal impact of grief – but also how that grief might serve to bring about change. The Night of November 4th is a quivering chamber play that with few means and hushed language plays out well-known family scenes. BERGENS TIDENDE What do we really know about our children? asks Karin Fossum in this well directed psychological family drama. AFTENPOSTEN An intense chamber play about a disappearance and the reactions of the family. DAGSAVISEN Karin Fossum has with the intense relationship novel The Night of November 4th written one of her strongest books.VG

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Ole-Kristian Oksrød
Literature and Fiction2003 · 172 pp

Ole-Kristian Oksrød

Jon Øystein Flink

"Ole-Kristian could not explain what had happened. It was never Ole-Kristian´s intention to let Anton Bruckner pass Gustav Mahler. On the contrary, he was rooting for Gustav and was very happy to have him in the lead, but then ... still, Gustav was down to second place, and Ole-Kristian watched with wonder how the new leader very surprisingly had moved from seventh to second place, and then on the finishing line, very cheekily snuck past Gustav without him noticing. It was cheeky. Rude..."The rich, fat Bjørn Pedersen desperately needs to poop. The pretty TV-star Frøydis Pedersen desperatly need to pee. But they are both unable to use the toilet at the Oslo Central Station due to the fact they do not have any coins. While they are standing on the outside of the toilets suffering, the main character of the novel is already sitting in one of the stalls, passing time by doing anything but emptying his bladder or bowels. This it the starting point of the novel Ole-Kristian Oksrød and his meeting and confrontation with the capital of Oslo, with academia and the challenges of art music/contemporary music in pop cultural Norway, with art and capitalism, Red Front and the well being of the ultra radicals long after the 70´s, with the women and family, but most of all the meetings and confrontations with himself and his own role in all of this. Ole-Kristian Oksrød is serious, humoristic, weird, poetic, beautiful and thrilling. This novel is the debut of Jon Øystein Flink.

The Riddle Run
Children's Books2003 · 48 pp · Age 3 - 9

The Riddle Run

Bjørn F. Rørvik

The Riddle Run is the third book about Fox and Piglet. This time they participate in the Riddle Run of the Sillywinkles. They have to answer many difficult questions and do not pay attention to the rules. And then they are accused of cheating! Yet another fantastically surreal story for both grown ups and children!

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Roald Amundsen
Narrative Non-fiction2003 · 574 pp

Roald Amundsen

Tor Bomann-Larsen

”Exploits in the polar regions must be judged in the light of the subject’s former life.” Roald Amundsen wrote in his memoirs. Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) became one of Norway’s greatest national heroes. He sought out the earth’s best-kept secrets, but as he opened up undiscovered areas of the globe, he shielded his own life from outside scrutiny. Innumerable maps can show us where the polar explorer went. But what of the other outstanding and unanswered question about him: who was Roald Amundsen? No one knows the character of an island or a continent before he goes ashore. In this wide ranging and imaginative biography, Tor Bomann-Larsen retrieves, out of the mists of oblivion and the obscurity of myth, the legendary but hitherto undiscovered land of Roald Amundsen. Tor Bomann-Larsen’s biography of the celebrated Roald Amundsen throws new light on the man, in part by building on several previously unused and largely unknown sources. Tor Bomann-Larsen’s book will remain standing as great biographical art. I can rarely remember having read a biography in which the human enigma itself to such an extent is being thrown into relief.Erik Fosnes Hansen, Nordisk litteratur This Amundsen biography by Tor Bomann-Larsen has little in common with previous arctic books. In fact, it makes nearly all previous variants look withered and pathetic.Dagbladet It is OUTSTANDING. What more can I say?Roland Huntford, Cambridge Relentless, nicely illustrated and extremely elegant: a myth is brought back into historical reality.Der Spiegel A great read!Süddeutsche Zeitung Thrilling until the last page.Brigitte Amundsen is simply one of the best biographies ever.Deutschlandradio

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