Gyldendal klassiker. Heftet
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…
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…
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…