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The Dove Lanterns
Literature and Fiction2020 · 128 pp

The Dove Lanterns

Rannveig Fern Leite Molven

Astrid is in Amsterdam with her boyfriend Isak and a couple of friends. After an evening of heavy drinking, she heads out into the night alone, as the others discuss the climate crisis and oil drilling. The great catastrophe awaits us all, but in Astrid’s little life it has already happened. Her child went to sleep, never to wake again. The death of her child has made Astrid into the person she is today, a person incapable of fully connecting with others. Her friends return to the hotel as Astrid roams the snowy streets of Amsterdam. There she meets Mark, a homeless man. With a kind of speechless comprehension, he appears to grasp more about the baggage Astrid is carrying than her friends. In a sensuous and poetic prose, her tragic past story unfolds and memories mingle with the present in ways that Astrid finds difficult to cope with. The Dove Lanterns is an intense novel about grief, loss and memories. It powerfully shows how destructive it is to lose a child and how difficult it can be to reconnect to the world after the worst has happened.

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Stupid Naked
Literature and Fiction2020 · 184 pp

Stupid Naked

Ane Barstad Solvang

Stupid Naked is a novel about the relationships people have with themselves and others, about being lonely but finding your own autonomy; about Porsgrunn, Oslo, London and herpes.

Who Poisoned Hennie the Whale?
Children's Books2020 · 112 pp · Age 6 - 9

Who Poisoned Hennie the Whale?

Endre Lund Eriksen / Gisle Normann Melhus

Hennie the Whale is terribly ill and when it turns out that somebody has poisoned her, the Animal Detective Bureau takes on the case. Along with retired master detective Carl Berner and hyperactive mink Mirja, junior detective Nora tries to find out who’s behind it. The trail points in different directions, and maybe there isn’t just one criminal but several. A really, really gross and funny crime story from a place you’d never believe anybody could live – or at least not criminals.

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Death
Children's Books2020 · 104 pp · Age 6 - 12

Death

Endre Lund Eriksen

“Oh no! A book about death, and I’m in it…” Mikkel really doesn’t want to be in a book about death. Because in books like that, people end up dying, don’t they? But when the narrator starts to tell the story, Mikkel gets curious.Why do people die? What happens in the body when people die? And what does it mean to say that the dead “return to earth”? Death is a graphic fact book that takes death seriously – in a seriously funny way.

Death at Work
Literature and Fiction2020 · 144 pp

Death at Work

Kristian Klausen

The artist Mark Rothko killed himself in 1970, leaving behind nothing but a collection of mysterious paintings. This novel takes the form of Rothko’s fictional suicide note, but from a completely different reality. He lives in the southeastern Norwegian city of Drammen. As does the artist Agnes Martin. Death at Work is an exploration of the possibilities of form; a removal of the boundaries between biography, art and fiction.

The Game of Death
Children's Books2020 · 352 pp

The Game of Death

Anne Elvedal

The Game of Death is the first book in a paranormal horror trilogy on par with the best we've seen within YA. Sixteen-year-old Rebekka is looking forward to the annual motorcycle summer vacation with her father. But plans change abruptly when her father dies in an accident, just after a big quarrel between them. Filled with guilt and despair, Rebekka visits the Barn, her father’s car repair shop where he helped troubled kids put their lives back together. Among old vintage cars and tools, she finds a spirit board. Hoping that this may bring her in contact with her father, Rebekka uses the spirit board, which opens up a number of strange and frightening events. In addition, Rebekka receives a surprising message: Her father’s death was not an accident, he was killed. Suddenly Rebekka faces a mystery that is far greater and more complicated than she could have imagined. The Game of Death explores existential issues around death and love, loneliness and grief, faith and belonging. Belonging to oneself, to other people, and to something greater outside oneself. Is it possible that our lives are woven together with past lives, allowing old curses to haunt us and giving love left unspoken another chance?

Tarn of Death
Children's Books2020 · 120 pp · Age 9 - 12

Tarn of Death

Sigbjørn Mostue

Mathias and his sister Malin are taken on an overnight trip to a nature reserve by their eager, nature-loving father. But their father’s new girlfriend Ella Loudmouth and her daughter Birgitte are also coming along on the trip. The atmosphere is already grim from the time they’re in the car and Mathias foresees forced jollity with the bonus family out in the wilderness where there’s nothing to do. But it’s not long before mysterious things start to happen and Mathias receives a message saying that Malin is in danger. There turn out to be creatures living in the forest that are invisible to humans, unless they do what Mathias does: go through an uprooted tree and come out on the other side into a place where there are pixies and elves and a river sprite on the lookout for human food. Mathias faces enormous trials and the trip proves to be anything but boring. Sigbjørn Mostue has written a super intense novel for 9–12-year-olds that combines mythical creatures from Norwegian folklore with modern-day problems of conservation and climate issues. The book is illustrated by Ketil Bleidin.

The Edward Rubikon Mysteries: The Demon City
Children's Books2020 · 168 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Edward Rubikon Mysteries: The Demon City

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown

Ghostbusters meets Stranger Things in an adventure series for 7+. Edward Rubikon is a monster hunter. Together with his friends Kasper and Nadira, he tries to keep the little town of Grimsrud free of ghosts and other supernatural beings. But now Edward has got sick of it: he’s decided to shelve his investigations and become like everybody else. Unfortunately, the demons have other plans. Will Kasper and Nadira have to sort this one out alone?

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Ella Bella Bingo
Children's Books2020 · 72 pp · Age 3 - 9

Ella Bella Bingo

Frank Mosvold

Ella Bella Bingo sets up a circus at Sunshine Gardens with her best friend Henrik. Then Johnny moves into the house across the road and Ella worries that Henrik won’t be interested in the circus any more – or, worse still, that he’s sick of her and only wants to be friends with the new boy. When Henrik vanishes, Ella and Johnny do their best to find him. Who will find Henrik? Who will Henrik be best friends with? And will anything really come of the Sunshine Gardens Circus? This is an exciting, fast-paced story about friendship, with strong emotions and lashings of humour.

A Japanese Spring
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 256 pp

A Japanese Spring

Ina Strøm

Journalist and author Ina Strøm writes intimately, engagingly and with liberating honesty about her attempt to understand the Japanese and fit into a country that is so far removed from Norway in so many ways. Japan’s captivating history is elegantly interwoven into the text, whose action moves in parallel from south to north, and from ancient times to the present day. A Dream of the EastA Japanese spring awakens a deeper interest for the many paradoxes of Japanese culture, and anything that stir under the cultural surface.The easy changes between Strøm´s own experiences as well as the facts she digs up from the past makes for an entertaining read. Strøm places her self firmly in the middle: “I look at the Japanese and feel like a stranger. Then turn around and look at the tourists and feel almost equally strange.” She uses her self as the red thread on the journey, writing about the people she meets and the experiences that she makes, while reflecting on her own reactions. She allow her self to be both amazed and frustrated about the norms and prejudice, especially when it comes to the narrow expectations regarding family- and gender issues.KLASSEKAMPEN From the starting point on the tropical island Ishigaki - with her fingers in the dirt on a plantation owned by a widow with five boyfriends - until she lands in the north, looking for the native tribe Ainue, Strøm give us a rich portrayal of Japan with an abundance of smell and taste. She is a writer that takes it all in, that dare to be moved. The result is a fresh and original piece of travel literature.DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

A Brief Introduction to the Crusades
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 200 pp

A Brief Introduction to the Crusades

Pål Berg Svenungsen

Few phenomena from European medieval history are as controversial and debated as the Crusades. While attitudes toward the Crusades during the Middle Ages were largely overwhelmingly positive, subsequent reactions have been deeply divided: ranging from positive admiration to moral condemnation. The Crusades have been held up both as an example to follow and as a perversion of religion. Furthermore, the term 'crusade' has acquired an alternative meaning in everyday language, where it has been emptied of its original religious content and is instead used to refer to any good cause. This book aims to provide the reader with a better understanding of what the medieval Crusades actually were, as well as to highlight the central role crusades have played – and, to some extent, still play – in European history. «It is a truly excellent book—modest in size, but filled with interesting reflections and a thorough examination of several important aspects of the medieval crusades that most other scholars have either forgotten or simply taken no interest in (…) it is a well-written book with many new, important, and often surprising perspectives—solidly grounded in extensive research. It should definitely be included in university medieval studies curricula and can, moreover, be warmly recommended for general reading for pleasure.Kurt Villads Jensen, Historisk tidsskrift“(…) well-written and informative, managing to provide an overview of a highly complex historical topic in an easily accessible manner (…) All in all, A Brief Introduction to the Crusades is a superb book that can be both enjoyed and put to good use by a broad readership, from schoolchildren to pensioners. Because it is appropriately detailed while remaining easy to read and clear, this is a book Norwegian readers need, and one that Norwegian literature truly benefits from.”Steffen Hope, Heimen

A Happily Married Man
Literature and Fiction2020 · 160 pp

A Happily Married Man

Odd Klippenvåg

A Happily Married Man and Other Short Stories deals with the topic of Love. In this collection of stories, the past appears in the shape of a Russian woman, a brother is puzzled by his sister not attending their father´s funeral, a man has his life changed after a shellfish dinner party, a widow is struggling with frustration as well as her conscience, a head teacher is unfaithful and an old man experiences sorrow, as a long relationship has run its course. Winner of The Norwegian Young Critics Award 2020.