11 titles
Alberta and Jacob
Cora SandelAlberta and Jacob (1926), the first volume of the trilogy, introduces Alberta Selmer, one of the 20th century’s great anti-heroines: Imaginative and intelligent, trapped in a…
Alberta Alone
Cora SandelIn Alberta Alone (1939), Alberta, now mistress to Sivert, is living in Paris with their small son. While Sivert is involved in a liaison with a Swedish painter, Alberta falls in…
Alberta and Freedom
Cora SandelIn Alberta and Freedom (1931) Alberta escapes from her life in Norway to seek out Paris, a city where the bohemians will never die, where there is absinthe and endless talk of…
The Bonfire
Bergljot Hobæk Haff“The teacher was exactly as commonplace as a teacher is supposed to be in such a small corner of the world.” Thus begins Hobæk Haff’s modern classic The Bonfire . Though being…
Pan (1894)
Knut HamsunFirst published in 1894, Knut Hamsun’s Pan is former lieutenant Thomas Glahn’s retrospective narrative of his life and adventures in the Norwegian woods. A man of fascinating…
Wayfarers (1927)
Knut HamsunAs the modern industrialised world begins to encroach on a small, isolated coastal town in northern Norway the effect is devastating. For young Edevart, uprooted from his simple…
The Birds
Tarjei VesaasThe Birds (1957) might be Tarjei Vesaas’ masterpiece. No other character has portrayed with as much care and empathy as Mattis. Helpless in everyday life and useless as a worker,…
The Chime
Tarjei VesaasThe novel takes place on a small, green island, where the Li farm turns into the centre of events. An unknown man, Andreas Vest, arrives on the island. No one knows who he is, and…
The Ice Palace
Tarjei VesaasUnn walks too far into the frozen waterfall, and throughout one long winter, Siss fights the frost of her own mind. The girls feel early on that there are ties between them that…
Spring Night
Tarjei VesaasThe visitors give rise to great internal conflicts, and these gradually come to the surface in the tense atmosphere brewing in the house at night. As such, the two young siblings…
The Alberta Trilogy
Cora SandelAlberta and Jacob (1926), the first volume of the trilogy, introduces Alberta Selmer, one of the 20th century’s great anti-heroines: Imaginative and intelligent, trapped in a…