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Power
Hanna Dahl
In the novel Power , we meet Olav, a 75-year-old Norwegian veteran of the Waffen-SS. He gives his account of one of the operations he participated in on the German side during the…
My Human
Herbjørg Wassmo
Ruth and Gorm. She is an established artist from a poor background on an island off the coast of northern Norway. He is a merchant’s son from the same part of the country. They…
Twelve Words from Oskar Maier
Levi Henriksen
The great love of Tea Henriksen’s youth was Oskar Maier, a young German horticultural apprentice who had to leave Norway, step into uniform and head to the Eastern Front, where he…
Moments for Eternity
Kjersti Anfinnsen
In Birgitte Solheim’s experience, love becomes no less demanding even once she reaches ninety. Her life with and feelings for her partner Javiér are just as vivid, even if she is…
Return of the Jotun
Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen
Following the execution of a senior mafia boss, police investigator Petter Tyrar is contacted by a strange, one-eyed man. He offers Tyrar vengeance for a cruel injustice, but the…
Dog Patrol
Martin Sellevold
Stian is a seafarer and lives aboard the sailboat Vellamo . He makes a living as a translator of technical manuals and non-fiction books, in addition to a decent but risky second…

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My Catalogue of Men

Margrete Ecker has a strong will, but a weak heart; she’s going to need a new one. And one day in October, when a young man dazzled by the autumn sun crashes off the road, that’s…

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Save Yourself, Little Heart

Wencke Mühleisen

Sex is adulthood’s wild, existential game and its promise of intimate companionship. It is attachment, risk and transgression. It is a vague and, at the same time, overexposed…

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Ragnarok

Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen

After battling the Vanir in Åsgard, Tyr has found the Valkyrie Inai and their son Odd again. They live on a mountain farm in Jotunheimen along with some of the last surviving…

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Entrance

Linda Gabrielsen

A mother. A son. A diagnosis. A socio-political experiment. Entrance is about how a mother's ability to love is called into question when she sees her child through the eyes of…

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Death and Resurrection

Oda has donated her consciousness to science, and scientists around the world are taking part in a race to bring her memories and thoughts back to life. Her body is gone, but…

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Before the Nine Worlds Fall

Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen

Under Frøya’s leadership, the Vanir have overrun Åsgard and defeated the Einherjar. Odin is being held captive and the god of war Tyr has been forced into an alliance with Surt…

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Yellow Book

Mani is a recent economics graduate and has just got a job at the Ministry of Childhood and Adolescence. He’s a young man who lives with his father in an apartment in Haugenstua,…

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I Want to Wake up to the World

Karoline Brændjord

I Want to Wake up to the World reaches for the dead, for the world, and for an understanding of and reconciliation with childhood and death. Grief and a longing for freedom are…

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The Reindeer Hunters

The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since parish pastor Kai Schweigaard returned to Butangen in Gudbrandsdalen with Astrid Hekne's newborn son Jehans on his lap.…

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Don’t Fuck the Natives

Martinique seems like a tropical paradise, but anthropology student Fam hasn’t gone there to soak up the heat, booze and bronzed bodies. She has research to do. This is work. She…

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The Last Signs of Love

Kjersti Anfinnsen

Birgitte has grown so old that all her friends are dead. Frail and alone, she spends most of her time in her apartment in Paris, where she is trapped by physical decline and…

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Ocean Song

Maraia is almost eighteen. Her name means ”star of the sea”. In Maraia’s own sea, her star is blue, with five arms: depth, silence, song, awe, and courage. In their golden years,…

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I Feel Unwell. A Novel About Death

Ole Robert Sunde

What happens when the person who has been the light of your life for more than forty years is brutally torn away by a merciless, agonising cancer? What are you left with? Sorrow.…

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Wild Grass

Michael Rindahl

Wild Grass is the story of Edvin, a 62-year-old her-mit and in many ways one of the last of the North Norwegians. There have been great upheavals from the time his parents grew up…

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No Orders Forthcoming

Linda Skomakerstuen

On the last day before the holidays, Vilma finds an unaddressed envelope in her mailbox. Inside is a necklace belonging to her mother’s twin sister, who vanished from her village…

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Vexations

The world cannot be trusted. Politics is unrecognisable; the terrain no longer matches the map. Take a step up into thin air – the stairs are suddenly no longer there. Find…

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Suddenly Hearing Someone Open a Door

Sara is four years old. Her mother is a student and is writing her dissertation. During the novel we are given an insight into their day-to-day life, into the young mother’s…

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He Didn't Want to Just Disappear

Magnus and Eva are a married couple who have greatly enjoyed the freedom that comes with not having children. To all appearances they have lived happily together for thirty years,…

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