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ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION Maja Lunde swept the world off its feet with ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION her debut novel The History of Bees. Now she is back with another magnificent and grip- ping story about people and water.

2017: Signe is close to 70, but sets out on a hazardous ocean journey, all alone and carrying a strange load, to confront the man she once loved.

2041: David feels too young to be a father, but has to flee alone with his young daughter through a drough ridden Southern Europe, where there isn 't enough water for all anymore. Everything changes the day they discover an abandoned sailboat in a deserted garden far away from any shore. 4 5 Blue is the second, stand-alone novel of Lunde's The Climate Quartet. The History of Bees:

Sold to 30 territories Quite simply the most visionary Norwegian novel I have read since the first instalment of 250 000 books sold in Germany Knausgård’s ‘My Struggle’. Winner of the Norwegian Booksellers Award - Expressen, Sweden, on The History of Bees

Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde (b. 1975) is a Norwegian author and screenwriter. She lives with her husband and three sons in Oslo. The History of Bees (2015) is her first adult novel. It recieved massive attention when it was first presented at the London Book Fair (Spring 2015), and was sold to seven languages before the book was launched. Her second novel Blue will be launched in October 2017. Photo: Oda Berby

Blå Novel Aschehoug, 2017 370 pages Helga Flatland A Modern Family Flatland has perfected her literary style, and this novel hits the bull’s eye. And, she is funny, too. With this book, Flatland

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION «We’re leaving each other» ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION demonstrates, once again, her impressing skills in describing the modern human being – or rather, a modern family. (…) A quiet earthquake occurs as siblings Liv, Cements her position as one of our most important, younger Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners authors and children, are gathered around the dinner – Dagbladet, 6 out of 6 stars table somewhere on the outskirts of Rome to celebrate Dad and Granddad Håkon’s 70th birthday. There is a hint of Ingmar Bergman in this portrayal of a com- pletely normal family, it delves deep and wrenches your heart. Shock and disbelief follow, as the three – Adresseavisen, 6 out of 6 stars grown children tries to cope with their parent’s decision. Not only does it affect their relationship as siblings, it echoes through the Once again, Helga Flatland proves that she is an unusually wise homes they have built for themselves, as well and sharp observer of people, of how we act, and interact, of as forcing them to them reconstruct their our traumas and coping mechanisms. Her prose is crystal clear shared narrative about their upbringing and and unpretentious, spiced up with drips of humor. family history. – Dagsavisen 6 7 Helga Flatland masterfully conducts this story, voiced in turn by Liv, Ellen and Håkon, Rights sold to: Buckle up and enjoy this novel – a roller coaster of a read. with rare psychological insight, humor and Sweden (Polaris) Intense emotions, highs and lows, and the events that set Germany (Weidle) an almost filmatic narrative drive. A Modern them in motion are vibrantly and insightfully described. Hope, Bulgaria (Perseus) Family is a novel that will make you look at razor-sharp irony, suffocating jealousy and heartfelt unity, the people closest to you just a little more characterize this so-called modern family, that on the outside is thoroughly. so well-polished and old-fashioned that no one gets to stay in- doors on a sunny day and everyone eats pancakes for breakfast at everyone’s birthday. – Bok365.no

Helga Flatland A Modern Family is an important novel, adressing the challeng- Helga Flatland (b. 1984) is already one of Norway’s most awarded es of interaction with the ones close to you in a way that every and widely read authors. She has written four novels and a children’s reader can relate to book. Of her trilogy Stay if you can, leave if you must the Danish - NRK Extrabladet wrote: "Each novel on its own is a stylistic masterpiece that could, but shouldn’t be read separately. Together they form a Photo: Niklas Lello phenomenal story."

En moderne familie Novel Aschehoug, 2017 239 pages Beginnings

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION Life can only be understood backwards; but ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION it must be lived forwards, Søren Kierkegaard Beginnings by Carl Frode Tiller has it all: A fascinating composi- wrote. Beginnings is the story of one man’s tion, black humor, moving scenes, psychological depth, poetic life, told from end to start, from suicide to features (...) An Ibsen's Brand for our time. birth. To better cast light on the ever recur- - Aftenposten ring question of why life turned out just the way it did? Dark glowing fiction art (...) Tiller is best in this country when it Terje is a father and a husbond, a son, a comes to describing extremely uptight, desperate and despairing brother and an environmentalist. Pained by characters. his shortcomings when it comes to interact- - NRK ing with the ones closest to him and wres- tling with the notion that his activism and efforts on a local scale just might be useless in Heartbreaking and psychologically poignant (…) Hardly any other the face of a global catastrophe. Norwegian author makes such convincing and merciless use of the trivial and banal in everyday conversations to reveal deep Pr human relations. 8 - Dagsavisen 9 A gripping and highly original novel about choice, freedom and determinism. Nominated to the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010 Winner of the European Prize for Literature 2009 How fortunate we are to have an author like Carl Frode Tiller's Winner of the Hunger Prize 2008 view on human nature. Nominated to the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2008 Winner of the Norwegian Book Award 2007 - Dagens Næringsliv Winner of the Critics’ Prize 2007 Winner of the First Book Award 2001 Winner of the P2 Listeners’ Best Novel Prize 2001 One of the fall's best books, with an unmistakenly Tiller-ish signa- ture. - Bergens Tidende

Carl Frode Tiller Carl Frode Tiller (b 1970) is admired for his instantly recognizable, His nature scenes has a hint of the language and imagery of Jon furious prose and his ability to create vivid, complex characters. In Fosse (...) a novel on the very top shelf of this author's body of 2005 he was named one of the 10 best Norwegian writers under 35. work. In 2006, The Slope was named among the 25 most important Nor- - Morgenbladet wegian novels from the last 25 years in the newspaper Dagbladet. In addition to his novels, Tiller has written three plays and a number of Photo: Therese Alice Sanne short stories and short prose.

Begynnelser Novel Aschehoug, 2017 343 pages Jan Kjærstad Lars Petter Sveen Berge Five Stars

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION Those who aren’t moved and shaken by this story, are either Five young people fleeing through an un- ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION completely uninterested in literature in this genere, or some- known world. how emotonally detached. - Dagbladet Aisha and Said are child soldiers, but manage On a warm day in August 2008, Labor Party to escape from the camp outside Mogadishu. minister Arve Storefjeld and several members Later they meet Isir, Aaliyah and Khadar of his family, are found murdered in their who is also on the run. The five decide to family cabin at Blankwater, in the Nordmarka stick together and try to make it to Europe. forest. Five people with their throats slit. But how do you survive in a world where you are unwanted by all? Journalist Ine Wang has felt out of touch lately. But the Storefjeld murders changes ev- This is the story about those who loose all erything. Judge Peter Malm lives a withdrawn and flee to nothing, but also about hope, life and attends his hobbies in happy solitude. commitment and friendship. And of who you The last thing he wants is attention drawn become when no one knows you are. to himself because of a case Nicolai Berge was head over heels in love with Gry, Arve 10 Storefjeld's daughter, for years. Then she 11 broke up with him. Now she is dead. In Berge, Jan Kjærstad dismantles some of the biggest Named one of Norway’s ten best authors under 35 by myths, traumas and archetypes in recent Norwegian Berge is a story of horrible events, told from Morgenbladet (2015) history. The result is one of his strongest novels he’s ever P.O. Enquist Prize (2016) written. I dare to name Berge a certain winner of the 2017 three different points of view. A journalist, a Sult Award (2015) book fall. judge and an ex-boyfriend. Without touching Jan Roar Leikvoll Memorial Award (2015) - VG, six out of six stars upon the July 22nd attack in Norway, Berge Nynorsk Literature Award (2014) Mads Wiel Nygaard Legat (2014) Probably this year’s most important Norwegian novel. is a novel that would not have been written Tarjei Vesaas Debutant Price (2008) - Hamar Arbeiderblad, six out of six stars without it. Winner of the Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award 2008

Jan Kjærstad Lars Petter Sveen Jan Kjærstad occupies a prominent place in contemporary Norwegian Lars Petter Sveen was born in 1981. He made his debut with the literature. He he made his debut as a writer of fiction in 1980, and has short story collection Driving from Fræna in 2008, and got his big since written a number of novels, short stories and essays. His trilogy breakthrough in 2014 with his third novel Children of God for which The Seducer (1993), The Conquerer (1996) and The Discoverer he was awarded the prestigous P.O. Enquist Prize in 2016. The book (1999) was hailed as a monumental contribution towards renewal of is sold to the US, France, and Sweden. China and Bulgaria the art of novel writing in Scandinavia, and was awarded the Nordic Sveen was named one of Norway’s ten best authors under 35 by Mor- Council’s Prize for Literature. Photo: Mimsy Møller genbladet in 2015. Photo: Tine Poppe

Berge Novel Fem stjerner Novel Aschehoug, 2017 378 pages Aschehoug, 2017 256 pages Gøhril Gabrielsen Arrival Identity

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION At one of the northernmost outposts of Nor- This novel’s first-person protagonist, a ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION way, a scientist arrives to spend the winter in self-described semi-criminal, bragging work- a deserted, old fisherman’s cabin, finishing a horse and bludger, is hiding from his partner research project. Maria, isolating himself in the barn to work on an endless text massive that will never be Her toddler daughter is with her ex-husband published. Not as long as he is alive, anyways. in the south. All alone, surrounded by endless But he cannot escape the uneasy feeling that snow and the petulant forces of nature, she is someone is sneeking around inside his text, awaiting her lover to join her. making alterations.

As the weeks pass, and her lover lingers, the Punctuated by snarling, wonderfully evil apho- remoteness she has sought starts to feel less risms of all that is wrong with our time. A book like a refuge and more like a threat. no Norwegian can possibly wish for, but one we all deserve The rational thinker is drawn towards the - Dagens Næringsliv irrational, her loneliness gives way for a disturbing presence, something dark and A beautiful hybrid and a very unique read. 12 unknown, moving outside or inside herself. - Aftenposten 13

I have said it before, I will say it again: The Thrillingly original, a sort of hillbilly-Houelle- Not often does one read an author whose Creeping suspense in an elegant wrapping dirty-surrealist-philosopher Thure Erik Lund becq, a Celine from Vikersund. No one else language is so stylistically conscious and ... Gabrielsen once again demonstrates her (f. 1959) is one of the authors who makes in the entire Kingdom writes like Lund, every whose prose so through-and-through impressive, accurate prose. my mind feel as slow and insufficient as it single sentence is both precise and offhand at original. - Dagsavisen probably is. He is rough and rabid, complex the same time, driven by a unique, hammering - From the jury statement of the 2016 Amalie and demanding musicality ... a momentuous satire of our time. Skram Prize - Stavanger Aftenblad - Dagbladet

Gøhril Gabrielsen Thure Erik Lund

Gøhril Gabrielsen (b 1961) grew up in Finnmark and lives in Oslo. Thure Erik Lund (b. 1959) is one of Norway’s most innovative and She made her debut in 2006, and has since published five novels. She highly acclaimed authors. He made his debut with Tanger in 1992, for was awarded Aschehougs debutant price in 2008, the Tanum Wom- which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas’ Debutant Prize. He has also ens writers price in 2010 and the Amalie Skram Prize in 2016. won the Norwegian Critic’s Award, The Scandinavian Award for best Her third novel Dizzying Opportunities was published in English by contemporary novel, and The Natt og Dag Book of the Year Award. Peirene Press under the title The Looking-Glass Sisters in 2015.. Photo: Per Are Løkke Photo: Aschehoug

Ankomst Novel Identitet Novel Aschehoug, 2017 170 pages Aschehoug, 2017 471 pages Roskva Koritzinsky Toril Brekke I Have Not Yet Seen the World We All Loved Your Mother

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION -Who’s my father? Agathe asks several ASCHEHOUG -UPMARKET times, but no one ever answers.

The final story, where a daughter writes Set in Oslo during the 50s, in the nicer areas to her father, is world class. Sore and of town, Agathe lives with her grandparents painful, revealing and near. and her uncle Jannik who dreams of becom- - VG, on I Have Not Yet Seen the World ing a sailor. And her mother, a woman who doesn’t really see her child, but is lost in her longing for other places, like the stages of A middle aged man, working in drug reha- , London or Paris. bilitation, leaves his wife and children after Little Agathe is left to herself and she is the falling in love with a teenage client. A single one to discover that the handicapped boy woman returns from work one day, to find next door both can walk and talk – and loves that an entire litter of puppies have gone music. missing. A girl writes a love letter to her boy- One day everything changes. Agathe is torn friend, seven months after his death. away from the beautiful life she knows and moves with her mother and the new family 14 to a working class suburb, where she has to 15 hide that she can read and play instruments. From the reviews of In Here Somewhere: ... an examplary, historic novel. Simple, A stellar debut! - VG We all loved your mother is a coming of subdued and old-fashioned prose, an easy age novel, and a hymn to those living in the and entertaining read … An impressive and Impressive short story debut (...) Roskva Koritzinsky is a thorough research, and a solid literary hand- shadows of others, who still manage to find a great talent. - Klassekampen icraft. Congratulations, Brekke! place in the sunlight. - Dagbladet on The Promised Land Koritzinsky is at her best when she creates vivid physical images to emphasise a characters psychological condi- tions. - Morgenbladet

Toril Brekke

Roskva Koritzinsky Toril Brekke (b. 1949) is one of Norway's most notable, multi-talent- Roskva Koritzinsky (b. 1989) made her debut with the short story col- ed and dynamic fiction writers. She has published a wide-ranging lection “In Here Somewhere” in 2013, for which she received Asche- series of novels, short stories, biographies, books for young adults houg 's Debutant Prize and was nominated to Tarjei Vesaas ' Debutant and stories for children. Brekke combines a broad interest in public Prize. In 2016 she was selected as one of the first authors in New affairs with a rare talent for storytelling. Her books have been trans- Voices, NORLA 's development programme for new literary talents. lated to Danish, German, Dutch and Russian. Photo: Håkon Borg Photo: Tine Poppe

Jeg har ennå ikke sett verden Short stories Alle elsket moren din Novel Aschehoug, 2017 94 pages Aschehoug, 2017 350 pages ASCHEHOUG - CRIME & THRILLERS 17 - Photo: AKAM1K3 AKAM1K3 Photo: Thriller 350 pages An extraordinary thriller aboutAn extraordinary a man of the the course to change determined war. second world veteran injured on A disillusioned and regretting Henry Storm is the the Eastern front, Norwegian Getting to know secret aboutunlikeliest of heroes. he decides to go a German “wonder weapon”, to Germany, to uncover the mystery, and back redeem himself. security Sorge is an officer in the German Werner cross paths with the service whose investigations Nor- find the program and Storm. To secret rocket A wegian spy he employs his own secret weapon: woman turned into a beautiful and troubled Polish German agent. Can Storm get his game-changing intel out of the Wolfsangel Sorge bait him into the Will Reich? trap? de Based on historic events like the V2 rocket students spying inside velopment and Norwegian is a rejuvenation of Nazi Germany, Wolfsangel of the Needle Eye Follett’s suspense classics like Ken Berlin trilogy. and Philip Kerr’s Ulvefellen 2017 Aschehoug, Aslak Nore (b. 1978) is an author, editor and runs the popular Aslak Nore crime blog OP-5. acclaimed non-fiction has written several Nore books, among others God Is Norwegian (2007), about Norwegian debut, A Norwegian soldiers abroad. In 2012 he had his non-fiction the critics praised. spy-novel which Spy, an adventure packed Aslak Nore One of the highlights of Norwegian Crime highlights Crime of Norwegian One of the year. this - VG novel. A great - Dagbladet among Norwegian on top out Will it come year? this novels Crime - Hamar Arbeiderblad Aslak Nore Aslak Wolfsangel Photo: Raymond Mosken Raymond Photo: A new mystery from the author of the the author of the from A new mystery bestsellerinternational . Circle's End – a Bjørn Beltø archaeologist albino The anti hero full of nerves and self-irony charming for a several thousand– is searching year old not of the Dead. But he’s text called the Book this mysterious manu- the only one wanting An ancient and secret script from olden times. to go to great lengths Christian order is willing to stop him. in a laboratoryresearchers Meanwhile, medical in the US hap- are attempting to uncover what the pens to us after death, as well as “transplant” call souls of dying people into newborns. They it the sensational exposure of the Lazarus Effect, all and raise the question what if death isn’t at what we thought? Beltø soon uncovers a terrifying link between the Book of the Dead and the Lazarus Effect. 7th Beltø-novel is an epic story and an in- The for possible answers to questions triguing search on what we are made of and what happens before we are born die. – and after we Thriller 450 pages Tom Egeland Tom most acclaimed sus- is one of Norway’s Egeland (b. 1959) Tom international suc- pense writers who has enjoyed a considerable cess. His books have been into 25 languages and sold translated 2010 he was awarded more than 1,5 million copies worldwide. In Lucifer's Gospel. the prestigious Riverton Prize for his Beltø-novel Lasaruseffekten 2017 Aschehoug, He writes stories. Dark enigmatic stories. stories, writes He people master Few stories. and good stories art him. the than better - VG on The Devil's Mask his position as consolidates Egeland Tom contemporaryNorwegian crime fiction’s entertainer. foremost on The 13th Disciple-Dagbladet The Lazarus Effect The Tom Egeland Tom

ASCHEHOUG - CRIME & THRILLERS 16 ASCHEHOUG - NON-FICTION 19 Photo: Aschehoug Aschehoug Photo: Non-fiction 356 pages The work of Delta Norway, from everyday from work of Delta Norway, The terror hit. 22nd 2011, when the life to July in recent years beenEurope has subject to a number Charlie Heb- terror attacks. of rough bomb in attacks in Paris, do and the Bataclan and shootings in public Brussels, knife attacks crowds, are all parts places, cars plowing into ones to com- of the same picture. The threat first and foremost the bat these threats are forces. Delta Norway European contra terror forces, network of such is part of a European at the same police it is the Norwegian time as against serious and force's main measure organized crime. the first time one of the contra terror For more than two forces has opened up. For years’ Malin Stensønes were allowed inside in their work. to follow Delta Norway In this book, in we follow Delta Norway - everyday life, during recruiting, training, exer and cises, patrol service and sharp operations, for the first time members of the force tells in detail about their actions July 22nd 2011, when the terror hit Norway. På vår vakt - Beretninger fra politets beredskapstropp fra politets Beretninger - vår vakt På 2017 Aschehoug, Malin Stensønes Malin - Delta Norway and Protect Serve To Malin Stensønes Malin Malin Stensønes (born politician and 1968) is a Norwegian of the board she holds the position as chairman of Today author. Establishment. Defence Research the Norwegian - Photo: Oda Berby Photo: Never forgive, never forget. forgive, never Never been Croesus and has He calls himself a mental institution Norwegian patient at the Before he dies, he Dikemark for 50 years. here. whispers: - they kill patients managed to talk to Croe One of the few who of a brain surgeon sus, is Julia, the daughter who works at Dikemark. disappearsSome years later Julia without Kajsaa trace, and when journalist Coren is what happened, she summoned to find out is thrown into a maelstrom that includes an undiscovered Edvard research, psychiatric and neglected children. Munch-painting Soon Kajsa's employer is found murdered, and the investigation reveals that he was not who he said he was. Thriller 350 pages Pasienten 2017 Aschehoug, Trude Teige Trude most recognized journal- is one of Norway’s (b. 1960) Teige Trude news presenter and TV- ists, through her work as political reporter, the TV-journalist host. In 2009 she wrote her first crime, featuring was Teige Stopped Talking, Girl Who the novel The Kajsa Coren. For Her books have been sold to Award. nominated to the Bookseller’s Germany and Russia. Suspenseful and well-written Suspenseful Fædrelandsvennen - stylish, in this goes astray Psychiatry crime novel well-composed Aftenposten - The Patient The Trude Teige Trude

ASCHEHOUG - CRIME & THRILLERS 18 Pål Moddi Knutsen Erling Sandmo Unsongs - Ten untold stories about censorship and music Monstrous - Sea Monsters in Maps and Literature 1491-1895

ASCHEHOUG -NON-FICTION A scheduled gig in Tel Aviv in the Spring of Gigantic sea snakes, multi-eyed ocean pigs NASJONALBIBLIOTEKET -NON-FICTION 2014 changed Pål Moddi Knutsen’s life forev- or fish the size of elephants: Sailors of the er. After experiencing a cross fire of criticism past had to prepare for the worst when and realizing that playing in Israel was not they travelled the seas. History professor a matter for the faint hearted or seemingly Erling Sandmo has dived into the archives a simple gesture in the name of music, he of the National Library and found a series decided to cancel the concert. of spectacular stories of encounters with sea monsters. This delightful little book brings The cancellation lead him to discover how us images of a variety of monsters from old politically powerful a simple song can be and maps and books, together with Sandmo's that the world was full of artists who had insightful, fascinating essays on their origin, been imprisoned and silenced for their songs, meaning and eventual disappearance. even killed. And so, a journey began over five continents, through Chile, Israel, Mexico, “The occasion for this little book is to gather a few Vietnam, Lebanon and other countries, monsters between these pages. That is what I have attempted to do here, all the while conscious of the where he met artists who had written songs paradoxical nature of the endeavour. Per definition, that mattered. a monster necessarily transgresses boundaries and categories, disrupting systems and sowing anxiety 20 within the established order, before vanishing into 21 In Unsongs we meet 10 destinies behind the Foreign rights sold: German (Nagel & darkness the moment we try to pin it down and bind songs, who all have faced censorship, per- Kimche) it within our definitions.

secution and violent suppression. This book Nevertheless, that is my goal. I hereby present twen- is a tribute to the power of music in a time ty monsters, or more precisely, sea monsters. My cri- when most people shun the idea of music as teria for inclusion are twofold: first, they must at one time in history have been considered true monsters, a political tool. Moddi, however, shows us and second, the source material must be available in that political music can be as dangerous as a the collections at the National Library of Norway.” shotgun. Erling Sandmo

Pål Moddi Knutsen Erling Sandmo Pål Moddi Knutsen (born 1987) is a Norwegian musician and author, and a political and social activist. His music has been described as a Erling Sandmo (b. 1963) is professor of history at the University blend of folk music and pop, although he refers to himself as a singer of Oslo, researcher at the national library, author and critic. He and storyteller. Moddi is widely recognised for his interpretations and has written a number of books and articles on criminal violence, translations of other artists, such as Vashti Bunyan and Pussy Riot. historical method and classical music, to name a few, and is an Unsongs is his first book. established music critic. Photo: Aschehoug Photo: Universitetsforlaget

Forbudte sanger - Historier fra fem kontinenter Non-fiction Uhyrlig - Sjømonstre i kart og litteratur 1491-1895 Non-fiction Aschehoug, 2017 287pages Nasjonalbiblioteket, 2017 95 pages Alf Ketil Walgermo Content A Rough Guide to the Bible Forlaget Oktober

SAMLAGET -NON-FICTION This is the book for all who need to brush up FORLAGET OKTOBER on their knowledge about the Bible, and for those who never opened it.

The Bible is the world’s best-selling book of 24 - Rune Christiansen all times. It is both a sacred text and a literary 26 - Merethe Lindstrøm triumph. It is the starting point for two world religions and a cornerstone in the western 28 - Thorvald Steen literature and civilization. Is it possible to 29 - Unn Conradi Andersen understand our own history, language and culture, if we don’t know the Bible? 30 - Hans Petter Blad

Alf Kjetil Walgermo has written a knowledge- 31 - Runa Fjellanger able and accessible guide to the Bible. With a 32 - Kristin Friis curious mind and educational sense, he takes the reader along into the most important and 32 - Tormod Haugland influential book ever written. 33 - Vilde Heggem 22 23 34 - Walgermo’s combination of humility and respect for the original text, and his bold 35 - Marie Landmark contemporary reading of it, is just liberating, enlightening and engaging 36 - Terje Holtet Larsen - VG 37 - Tove Nilsen 38 - Rita Paramalingam 39 - Anne B. Ragde 40 - Tore Renberg Alf Ketil Walgermo 41 - Alf Kjetil Walgermo (born 1977) is an author, journalist and literary 42 - critic. He has previously written seven books, including books for children and YA. Alf Kjetil Walgermo is today the culture editor of 43 - Morten Øen the Norwegian daily Vårt Land. 44 - Hanne Ørstavik Photo: Agnete Brun

Røff guide til Bibelen Non-fiction Samlaget, 2017 384 pages FORLAGET OKTOBER 25 I no longer remember once when I the circumstances, but Let husband were in me tell you a story: a woman and her was allowed to stay on in her Despite her young age, Fanny Translated by Kari Dickson Kari by Translated Slowly, slowly. All that effort. Nothing happens on its own. Neither Neither own. on its happens Nothing effort. All that slowly. Slowly, of the life in the depths most unobserved sun nor the the unflagging forbearance. effort, without created without ocean were A badger clay the stones and the span of a bridge, a home under looking for the wood ploughed fields, the soil in their way up through that force are all unaware gives in the interior of a house, that warps and then of their own patience. if two people, that it was possible to work out was young, I claimed - It was simply a matter of math meet one day. two strangers, would out into the room like, more statement flew ematics, I believed. This insect with beautifulthan anything, a winged Of course antennae. comforting of course I was just fibbing, telling it was just nonsense, tales at best, as it is rather the end that can be the separa- calculated, tion that is inevitable and to be on. counted day was waning, they were on their way home a car accident. The unknown reason, the car from a shopping centre, and for some life was The man’s into a pylon. swerved off the road and straight not to be saved, and the woman lay in hospital for a week before left behind a seventeen-year-old daughter, she too died. They branch the only remaining person in an otherwise childless Fanny, unfolded, autumn swept in of the family, and as these tragic events with weeks of incessant and soon the corn stood rotting in the rain fields. months passed, but grief kept her company, home. The childhood it belonged like the colour of her eyes, her crooked nose and to her, shape of her fingers. It was and an undemanding both a strenuous did as best it was she could, time there in the old house. Fanny repairing the gutters, to school, nothing special, she thought: getting wood, and weeding. chopping Photo: Baard Henriksen Henriksen Baard Photo: , 6/6 stars , 6/6 A magnificent novel … gripping, poetic … gripping, and novel A magnificent and wise incredibly … thought-provoking beautiful - VG outstanding novel aesthetically A thoughtful, in life small and big questions the about Aftenposten - offers ... He greater form top at Christiansen if anything barbs and shows darkness, more imagery and stylistic- sophisti inventive more before ever than cation - Dagsavisen Fanny is a young orphaned girl who tries to girl who tries is a young orphaned Fanny live as best on the outskirts as she can, alone performing days go by The of a small town. repairing getting to school, simple chores: wood and keeping the the gutter, chopping But beyond these sorry condi- weeds at bay. tale, full of stubborntions, there is the fairy Fanny’s Through conceptions and possibilies. this seemingly world, to the approach distinct simple story becomes a simile about friend- transgression. ship, independence and and the Mystery is Forest in the Grieving Fanny a both deeply disturbing novel hopeful and and another masterpiece by a unique writer. Novel pages 224

Fanny og mysteriet i den sørgende skogen sørgende i den og mysteriet Fanny 2017 Oktober, Forlaget Rune Christiansen Rune Rune Christiansen (b. 1963) has beenNor- an important figure in In addition to several wegian literature ever since his debut in 1986. books of groundbreaking poetry, he has published a string of Lone- acclaimed novels. Hailed by critics as his best novel so far, The Erneman's Life (2014) won the Brage Prize, and was liness in Lydia shortlisted for both fiction and the P2 Listeners’ the Critics’ Prize for Prize. Novel Christiansen’s stylistic and confidence Christiansen’s writing to text lift the authoritative in Norwegian reached rarely a level contemporary not ... deserves literature only literary an audience also prizes but Norwegian the than greater far - Dag og Tid Foreign rights Denmark sold: (LESEN) Foreign Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest in the Mystery and the Fanny Rune Christiansen Rune

FORLAGET OKTOBER 24 FORLAGET OKTOBER 27 (2015): Archives the Winter On From - singu this by greatness towards story step … another A brilliant love engrossed. is completely The … writer reader hypersensitive and lar been I have unputdownableness: book’s of the as a guarantee And in snow, and on platforms in subways, and train it on the reading Lind- Merethe read … To losing concentration without cold wind and incredibly is so heart prose her because ticking fast, your with ström acknowledge is to nerve, and has such naked, and true so good, superficiality own your - Dagens, Sweden Nyheter it's an outstanding case ... In any novel beautiful but sad, Dark, Denmark Jyllands-Posten, - (2013): On Architect at The short best in a long time … I’m read story I have collection stories Munro’s Alice been by least as gripped as I have on Architect Gomorron Sverige,SVT Sweden On Days in the History (2011): Silence of a differ- from out cut shadows, two were Outstanding ... "We outstanding, … This is an absolutely darkness" greater ent, even story beyond which points far smashed-to-pieces out of a marriage, borders Nordic the Denmark Weekendavisen, Photo: André Løyning André Photo: Hordes of people are on the move, chased chased people are on the move, Hordes of their camps. houses, their villages, from their A young boy marching has escaped the his com- walks alone, following crowds. He protruding like pass north, his shoulderblades wings that have been cut off. He carries with their definitions him the gaze of the others, his hunger, his poverty of him, together with and his degradation. a companion, one Along the way he gets A kind of under- who also carries a secret. standing arise beween them, as they walk to- full of bothgether through territories beauty and destruction. still contains North is a dark novel which light. It is a story with traces of fables and myths buried deep in our collective mind. Novel 220 pages

Nord 2017 Oktober, Forlaget Merethe Lindstrøm Merethe in 1983 with a bookMerethe Lindstrøm (b. 1963) made her debut of short stories, and has since published a number of volumes of short book. In 2008 she was nominated to stories, novels and a children’s Critics’ Prize Literature Prize and the Norwegian Council’s Nordic Guests. In 2011 Days History in the for her short story collection The of Silence, she was awarded both Council Literature Prize the Nordic and the Critics’ Prize. North Merethe Lindstrøm Merethe

FORLAGET OKTOBER 26 FORLAGET OKTOBER 29 - With one hand, I draw the curtain aside. I work the wheelchair wheelchair I draw the curtain aside. I work the one hand, With I've become During the past year dependent on a increasingly for an English biography of Napoleon Bonaparte on the I search mobile rings. My and it off, I fumble, to switch I thought it was in silent mode. I try 'Who is it?' I enquire tetchily. 'I've been trying to get hold of your mother,' a woman's voice says. 'I think you've got the wrong number,' I say, about to cut her off. is dead?' you tell your mother that one of her relations 'Would mean anything to me. She comes out with a name that doesn't condolences,' I say, understanding the without really 'My 'He was well over ninety.' 'It's sad all the same,'I say. easy.' that's what happens, losing someone is never 'Well, 'But who are you?' I ask. a pause before she answers. There's Translated by James Anderson James by Translated fore, they're supposed to look like green flames licking across the night sky. sky. across the night licking like green flames supposed to look fore, they're days our ancestors phone. In the olden on my mobile Wikipedia I check I replace the of famine and plague. Lights as omens the Northern regarded knitted jacket. of my blue the inside pocket phone in black. sky is The look out of the living-room window. forwards to take a seen Most people on the planet have never as a star in sight. so much Not they seem to manage perfectly well. Lights and the Northern can at least compensate it; the wheelchair I've accepted for wheelchair. so frequently of my legs. A year ago I was falling the helpless condition arms and legs. It's was worried I'd start breaking my that my wife, Sunniva, happened before. get up without help. It's hard to admit If I fall, I can't that the muscle-wasting is disease has got to a stage where a wheelchair the only safe option. bookshelves. Could I have lent it to someone? let the call through. the matter with her?' 'She's not answering. Is there something connection. A voice on the radio says on the A voice will be Lights the Northern that from visible Lights be seen the Northern tonight. I've never Norway parts of eastern Photo: Per Maning Maning Per Photo: - experi personal Thorvald transforms Steen high quality to ence com- fiction … In a rich, elements where reality text to close are plex craft, a revealing careful tells Steen with used of story fear topical and frighteningly of the - self-con and contempt of being different, readers to many find its It should way tempt. Aftenposten - It is just before a phone He receives Advent. that unknown woman claiming call from an been never much There’s she is his cousin. side. He has family on his mother’s talk of the of his grandfather. never known the name he discovers new truths and relatives Now he never knew about, and with them difficult lives with an inherited questions come up. He him into a wheelchair. illness that has forced connected to the Is the secrecy in the family abnormality he has inherited? chromosome out about what he has found his grand- Will into his own life? father give him insight Bathhouse is a story of origins, White The shame, concealment and the costs of being honest. Novel pages 180

Very powerful … Steen tells a universal a universal tells … Steen powerful Very story of generational conflicts, shame and concealment Adressavisen - living with book about wise A powerful, is a … Steen a very diagnosis serious literary craftsman highest order of the Fædrelandsvennen - Det hvite badehuset Det hvite 2017 Oktober, Forlaget Thorvald Steen Steen (b. 1954) made his literary debut in 1983, and has Thorvald plays, collections of subsequently published a wide range of novels, books and essays. He had poems, books of short stories, children’s his breaktrough with the historical novel Don in 1993, and has Carlos for his inventive histor- since won great acclaim at home and abroad often address political and ethical issues that are as ical novels, which His works have been translated into 27 languages. relevant today. The White Bathhouse The Thorvald Steen

FORLAGET OKTOBER 28 Unn Conradi Andersen Hans Petter Blad Everything Unsettled A Map of the Realm of Tenderness - Provenance. Book Two

FORLAGET OKTOBER As a journalist Torunn’s preoccupation is As the author Lukas Hørslev walks across FORLAGET OKTOBER exposing social taboos. But she is unable the floor of a posh café in an Oslo hotel, a to express her own experiences. When she woman addresses him with the words “I have starts writing about her own family’s secret, read you”. Little does he know about the she finds herself facing several dilemmas. Her direction his life will take from there. grandfather chose the wrong side during the war, and her father has never talked about During a few summer months an affair with what happened. Gradually a story about her Ingrid Lieseth Aasen will turn the way he in- own identity is uncovered. terprets his own life, his past and his previous love affairs on its head. Through the spec- Furthermore, when she meets the scholar tacles of infatuation, Lukas’ childhood and Siri, new and unknown emotions awake in younger years is reexamined, especially the Torunn: How does this influence her rela- young Lukas’ first, hesitant travels abroad. tionship to her boyfriend Olav? Will Torunn His intense love for Ingrid also transforms his choose silence, like her father, or words? understanding of the other women in his life, like his previous girlfriend Alva Berg and his Everything Unsettled is an intense and ex- wife, Sofia Olivares, and the marital crisis he 30 plorative novel about learning to see oneself imagines himself to be caught up in. 31 and others, and a fascinating story of gender, sexuality and race. A Map of the Realm of Tenderness is a novel of A quiet and tightly written debut … In its doomed love. It explores desire, seduction quiet, undramatic way, Everything Unsettled and the role lies and aesthetication play in is a book which opens up to the world and to experiences that perhaps only fiction can our lives. express - Aftenposten

Unn Conradi Andersen Hans Petter Blad Unn Conradi Andersen (b. 1972) is a writer and a sociologist. She Hans Petter Blad was born in 1962. Since his debut in 2002 with has previously worked as a journalist and op-ed contributor. Her first the novel In the Shadow of Small Men in the Middle of the Day, he has book was a non-fiction book about female writers and the media. published 3 novels and 4 collections of poetry. A Map of the Realm of Everything Unsettled is her fiction debut. Tenderness is a freestanding sequel to the 2015 novel Living Biograph- ically. Photo: Agnete Brun Photo: Katharina Barbosa

Alt uavklart Novel Kart over ømhetens rike Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2017 208 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2017 300 pages Runa Fjellanger Kristin Friis Motorway A Sickness in the Family

FORLAGET OKTOBER Anna and Ida are doing a road trip through The traditional Easter holiday in the moun- FORLAGET OKTOBER Europe, going from one motel to another. As tains comes to an abrupt halt when the fam- a child, Anna travelled those same motor- ily has to drive home to commit the oldest ways, tenting with her parents. In Motorway, daughter to hospital. The hospital section she these two trips are crosscut into one restless ends up in is for adults. All the others patients roadtrip in past and present. in her room are women. One of them eats dinner in the middle of the night. On a wall The novel is the story of the fragile, hesitant in his office, her doctor has put up postcards love affair between Anna and Ida. It’s about from former patient, sent from warmer coun- power and limitless borders, friendship and tries.Thinking about a poem she has read at desire, and about hurting those close to you. school, “The First Butterfly”, she imagines the poet, dying in his bed, asking himself why he Motorway is a novel with high pulse and high has to die when he doesn’t want to. tempo, written in rhythmic, driving prose. Many years later she goes back to the hospi- tal to look for the building where she lived, the tree she could see through her window, 32 and the little park she wasn’t allowed to 33 enter.

The novel’s prose elegantly accentuates the A Sickness in the Family is a penetrating report feeling of being on the move. The prose is rhythmic, the tempo fast and sequences are from the life of a young person written in repeated with small, but effective variations biting, precise and vulnerable prose. Is it pos- … Captures something of the heated, rest- sible to go on living? Will she ever experience less, as well as the carefree and endlessness freedom? of the summers of youth - Klassekampen

Runa Fjellanger Kristin Friis Runa Fjellanger was born in 1992. Motorway is her first book. Kristin Friis was born in 1969 and made her debut with the acclaimed novel The Byre. A Sickness in the Family is her second book.

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På motorveiene Novel Familiesykdommen Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2017 144 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2017 296 pages Tormod Haugland Vilde Heggem Of Animals and Visions Can He Say: Stay

FORLAGET OKTOBER Of Animals and Visions is set in a tiny rural A young man walks into a dark room. He FORLAGET OKTOBER community in Western Norway in the 1960s, walks across the room and sits down on a 70s and 80s. With farm life and rural culture chair. He remains seated, while moving his as a backdrop, we follow Tormod from child- upper body and looks around, without being hood through youth until he is an art student able to see properly in the dark. A woman in . who is slightly younger than him sees him as he crosses the floor, and recognizes him. She As a little boy, Tormod discovers a set of has met him before, already as a child. brass knuckles in his father’s desk, which he starts carrying with him everywhere. Tormod Can He Say: Stay consists of a stream of repe- isn’t always in control of everything, neither titions and a careful selection of details which of himself nor of his surroundings. He often slowly expands. The perception of the room, balances dangerously on the edge, whether as well as of the relationship between him driving a tractor down a much too steep and her, is constantly adjusted. It’s a compact hill, gathering wood for a Midsummer Eve novel about the how the gaze shapes memo- bonfire or walking alone around through the ry and the mind of a child. streets of Bergen. Tormod is born to become 34 a farmer, but he is also longing for something 35 else. Stylish, clear, physically close and suspense- ful, both sober and dramatic, harmonically Of Animals and Visions is a novel of animals executed and loving in a way that few others and people, art and nature. It’s about growing can do: A gorgeous novel up, about becoming a man and about making - Stavanger Aftenblad, 5/6 stars important choices. It is a warm, raw, gripping Complex and fascinating … dramatic and novel, which also represents a new turn in entertaining Haugland’s writing. - Dag og Tid

Tormod Haugland Vilde Heggem Tormod Haugland was born in 1962 and made his debut with the Vilde Heggem (b. 1983) is the author of three collections of poetry. novel Under in 1994. He has since published novels, short stories, Can He Say: Stay is her first novel. poetry and plays. In 2015 his acclaimed novel Dark Matter was nomi- nated for the Young Readers’ Critics’ Prize.

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Om dyr og syn Novel Kan han si:Bli Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2017 212 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2017 150 pages Edvard Hoem Marie Landmark Lives Others Have Lived Events without Names

FORLAGET OKTOBER An epic family saga spanning two A young woman works as an investigator of FORLAGET OKTOBER continents and three generations work accidents in factories and ship yards. She lives in her own, spacious apartment, Eilert Knudtson, who has been a farmer on which she tries to fill with green plants. She the Alberta Prairie for more than twenty is happy in her structured office. She has years, has come to Norway to see his siblings a series of shortlived relationships to men again, and to cope with his grief over having behind her. Then there's an accident at a ship lost his wife Martha, mother to his eight yard in Western Norway. Reports of what children. The year is 1927, and 34 years have happened contradict each other, and she is passed since he left Norway. sent to the site of the accident to find out what happened. Sixteen year old Lars Hoem, son of Anton Edvard, wants to follow his uncle back to The alternately poetic and bureaucratic prose Canada. He says he has to get away, because mirrors the contradictions between grotesque there’s a rock standing between him and the accidents and of the beauty of the industri- sun where he is now. Lars Hoem’s life in al landscape, with its ferries, docks, freight Canada becomes a dark thread leading to- ships and cranes. Events without Names is a 36 wards the harsh 1930s. Soon Eilert also finds novel of isolation and of existence on the 37 himself engaged in a long struggle to survive outside, about keeping distance to the lives of * 182,000 copies printed of the first three books as a farmer. other people, and at the same time keeping distance to oneself in a world where faceless * Rights sold to US and Denmark Lives Others Have Lived is a sensuous family migrant workers end up drawing the shortest Will live on as brilliant works of art in the his- saga with unforgettable main characters. Ed- straw. tory of … a fascinating, vard Hoem’s new novel asks the fundamental knowledgeable and engaging family saga, question: To what extent can a man shape his which is also the story of Norway as a nation own fate? How much is decided by forces we - Dag og Tid can’t control?

Edvard Hoem Marie Landmark Edvard Hoem was born in 1949, and made his debut in 1969. Since Marie Landmark was born in 1982. Events without Names is her first then he has published a number of novels, and has been nominated book. for the Nordic Council’s Literary Prize four times. In addition, Hoem has written plays, essays and biographies and has translated seven of William Shakespeare's plays into Norwegian. Photo: Paal Audestad Photo: Filip Christensen

Liv andre har levd Novel Hendelser uten navn Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2017 350 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2017 200 pages Terje Holtet Larsen Tove Nilsen Attempt to Move at the Speed of Dark Heavenly Conditions

FORLAGET OKTOBER In Attempt to Move at the Speed of Dark we Honesty meant leaving again. FORLAGET OKTOBER meet the driver of a Porsche 911 Carrera, bludgeoned to death and ditched in a manure She is back on Crete. This warm island is pit; the bereaved man who has left the lights like a second home to her. On her walks, of the city for a snow-covered existence in the scent of wild thyme is everywhere, and an anonymous suburb; an office worker who she keeps running into a young cat with her night after night sits behind a mirrored glass seven kittens. window, examining the terrified reactions of passers-by to their own mirror-image. Com- This journey is not like the previous ones. mon to them all is the dark desire to dissolve She has recently lost her father. She has into nothing. broken up with a man after several years. She has met a man she is still learning to know. Attempt to Move at the Speed of Dark contains Is there something about love between adult seven variations over the notion of the van- people that makes her more vulnerable than ishing point, written in Terje Holtet Larsen’s before? precise, gleefully uncompromising prose. On Crete the light and the bright colours are 38 the same as ever, but she notices that there 39 are fewer jobs and less money here now. In Brilliant prose and a powerful will to reflect Nilsen makes another foray into the genre of the sea surrounding the beautiful island boats ... He takes straight aim at the unsettled and travel fiction, and fills it with infinitely much full of refugees sink. When she meets her more than just travelling … a wise, sensitive, makes demands from the reader. The seven old friend Manolis, she sees that his face is and colourful novel stories he tells testify to an ambitious writer marked by illness. with a good ear for words - Klassekampen - Stavanger Aftenblad, 5/6 stars A wonderful read, with lots of compassion Heavenly Conditions is a rich novel of mortal- - Fædrelandsvennen ity and creative powers, about breaking up and finding love again.

Terje Holtet Larsen Tove Nilsen

Terje Holtet Larsen (b. 1963) made his debut with the novel The Son Tove Nilsen (b. 1952) has published numerous acclaimed, bestsell- in 1991. Since The Peer Gynt Version (2003) Larsen has been cultivat- ing novels since her debut in 1974. Her novel The Hunger of the Eye ing an inventive mix of fiction, autobiography and essay influenced by (1993) was shortlisted for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and as diverse writers as Vonnegut, Bernhard and Borges. He was awared Down in Heaven (2010) was shortlisted for both the Booksellers’ Prize the Gyldendal Endowment in 1995 for the short story collection and Norway’s two biggest readers’ prizes. She has also won several Variations, and the Riksmål Prize in 2012 for the novel The Dilettante. notable awards for her work as a whole, and her novels have been Photo: Baard Henriksen Photo: Morten Krogvold published in 9 countries.

Forsøk på å bevege seg med mørkets hastighet Short stories Himmelske tilstander Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2017 232 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2017 280 pages Rita Paramalingam Anne B. Ragde Let Me Come with You Honour Thy Father

FORLAGET OKTOBER Lara lives in a worn-down house with her Tormod Neshov is defenseless towards FORLAGET OKTOBER brother Felix who draws flowers, and her the memories haunting him at night, even mother, who rarely comes out of her bed- though he is safe now, at the nursing home. room. When Lara steals food at the shop, she He doesn’t want to go anywhere near is spotted by a Chinese woman, Ly. She goes Neshov, where Torunn has taken over and home with Ly, and learns to cook and use is hard at work getting the farm into shape healing herbs. Ly sends Lara and her friend again, while also becoming more involved Signe out to collect nettles in the forest, and in the running of Margido’s funeral parlour. there they find a hut, which they make into a Erlend has taken leave from work in order secret home. to monitor the refurbishing of their elegant, inherited Copenhagen villa, and life could When holiday comes, Felix goes away with have been so sweet if it wasn’t for Krumme’s another family, her mother is away with her new diet. new boyfriend and Signe moves to another town. Lara is home alone for several weeks. The fifth book of the Neshov series is a She sleeps, drowses and dreams of a river and gripping, sparkling novel about the characters a tree, of toads and seagulls. When Lara is readers have come to love so much – about 40 awake, she thinks of the night by the water- death suddenly hitting hard, and about life 41 One of this year’s most exciting debuts tower when she let Signe down. that always have to go on. … Through its simple, but elegant prose, Foreign rights sold: Danish (Rosinante), Finnish Paramalimgam describes a fate which all too Let Me Come with You is an existential novel (Tammi), French (Fleuve), German (BTB), Icelandic (Forlagid), Swedish (Forum) Ragde shows great love and care for this many children have to endure without giving about being open and unprotected, written in voice to it themselves fictional family. The both low-key, tender and prose which alternates between the romantic * The fifth book of the hugely successful no-nonsense portrayal of the forces that di- - Dagbladet, 5/6 stars Neshov series and the terse vide and those that tie people together makes A painful story of betrayal. An impressively * More than 2 million Neshov copies sold this fifth Neshov book a moving, serious and confident literary debut outside of Norway entertaining novel - Dagsavisen - Klassekampen

Anne B. Ragde Rita Paramalingam Anne B. Ragde (b. 1957) made her debut in 1986 with a children's Rita Paramalingam was born in 1993 in Oslo. Let Me Come Home with book. Her first novel was published in 1990. While her popularity You is her first novel. grew steadily with each new book, she had a massive breakthrough with The Berlin Poplars in 2004. Its two sequels were equally success- ful, making Ragde one of Norway's biggest, most beloved authors. In 2016 Ragde surprised everyone by publishing a fourth book about Photo: Marthe Hårstad Photo: Lasse Berre the Neshovs, Always Forgiveness.

La meg bli med deg Novel Liebhaberne Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2017 112 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2017 317 pages Tore Renberg Marit Tusvik Damaged Goods In His Arms

FORLAGET OKTOBER It’s December 2012, and Christmas shopping Sofia is twenty-three. She has broken up with FORLAGET OKTOBER is going through the roof. Money is flowing her boyfriend. She wants to be free. Then in the oil rich state of Norway and in the she meets Frank. He is fifteen years older. A shadow of a seemingly never ending boom, handsome man. American, globetrotter, intel- the Hillevåg gang are doing the best they lectual. He seems like good fun, Sofia thinks, can. In the snow-covered house, the 40 year before falling in love, suddenly and deeply. old gang leader Jan Inge is about to get mar- After a while, Frank moves in, with all his ried to his American lover, Beverly. Chessi is boxes, all his pictures, all his knowledge. And pregnant with twins, and Rudi is facing the little by little, things begin to change as Frank most dangerous weeks of his life. In the kids’ starts taking control over Sofia’s life. room, the blood of the hopeful young gang- sters Ben, Rudi and Dejan is boiling. In His Arms is a captivating, profound, sensu- ous novel about falling in love and breaking How will Jan Inge & the gang get out of their somebody down, and about living close to criminal existence? How many lives do they another person’s darkness. have to take before enough is enough?

42 Too many. 43 A wise novel about love that transforms into * Third book of a wildly succesful gangster An exceptional novel, as incredible as it is something else … masterful series realistic, written with an explosive force and - Fædrelandsvennen a pulsating passion for Balzac. A majestic * Rights to the first books sold in 10 territories page turner! An intense and nervewracking bildungs- - Karl Ove Knausgård on See You Tomorrow * First two books printed in 74,000 copies roman ... full of literary and historical refer- ences and quotes, precise metaphors .... This Renberg’s novels are of international excel- is calligraphy from loyalty’s self-effacing and lence catastrophic territory - Sydsvenskan, Sweden - Stavanger Aftenblad, 5/6 stars

Tore Renberg Marit Tusvik After publishing his first book in 1995, Tore Renberg (b. 1972) had Marit Tusvik (b 1951) made her debut in 1979 with the collection of his first massive success in 2003 with The Man Who Loved Yngve, poetry and prose The Journey to Mandarin Country. She has since writ- which evolved into a bestselling series of books. In 2013 he launched ten numerous collections of poetry, plays and children’s books. Her a high-energy, darkly funny gangster series with See You Tomorrow, debut as a novelist came in 1991 with The Ice House which won her followed by Attack from All Sides in 2014. the New Norwegian Prize for Literature and Mads Wiel Nygaard’s Endowment. Photo: Tommy Ellingsen Photo: Gunhild Bøygard

Skada gods Novel I hans armar Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2017 512 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2017 272 pages Lars Amund Vaage Morten Øen The Little Pianist Norway in Spring

FORLAGET OKTOBER In these eight stories, boys, teenagers and One-armed Frank is one of the survivors of FORLAGET OKTOBER adult men are looking for a language of the apocalypse. In the ruins of an old rural their own, away from their homes and their hut, he builds a home for himself out of rocks villages, in writing or in music. They long for and tarpaulin. Down in the village, Frank words that will redeem them, words that will meets other survivors to trade canned food connect them to other people, words that and salt for rhye bread and butter. On the might not exist. If they go away, they will be local football field, more and more white strangers. If they return, they will find that crosses made of sticks appear. they have no home anymore. In his lonely settler existence, Frank’s only Vaage opens up large spaces for his charac- company is the dog Blondi. A cold, barren ters. In tight and lucid, rhythmic and listening winter is approaching. Through the crackling prose, he writes about the ambivalence of radio, the voice of somebody in Oslo who human relationships, about the sorrow of calls himself the King keeps booming. Frank not having the words to express yourself in, senses a conspiracy. and about the sudden flight of a successful composition. Norway in Spring is an uncivilized, visionary 44 story with crooked characters and nowhere 45 to hide. Carefully crafted, brilliant stories … at their Øen has always enjoyed provoking, and this best they are high points of Norwegian prose book is no exception. At times I was uncer- … In the middle of the smooth prose, this tain if he was serious – or ironic … the novel is author can be clearsighted to the point of suspenseful, manysided and packed with lots brutality of facts from both ancient and modern times - Dagsavisen - Fædrelandsvennen

Vaage is Norwegian literature’s greatest mas- ter of sensitivity - Vagant

Lars Amund Vaage Morten Øen Lars Amund Vaage was born in 1952. Since his debut in 1979 he has Morten Øen (b. 1969) made his literary debut, a collection of poetry, published books in a great variety of genres. In 1995 he had a definite in 1990. He has since published ten poetry collections and six novels, breakthrough with the Critics’ Prize winning novel Rubato. In 2012, and has been awarded the Oktober Prize and the Halldis Moren his acclaimed novel Sing was a national bestseller, after winning the Vesaas Prize. national Brage Prize and being nominated for the Critics’ Prize. Photo: Hans Jørgen Brun Photo: Self-portrait

Den vesle pianisten Short stories Norge om våren Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2017 224 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2017 512 pages Hanne Ørstavik Over the Mountain

FORLAGET OKTOBER The author Irma travels from Paris to South- ern France to cross the Pyrenees, along the route Walter Benjamin followed when he was fleeing from France to Spain during WW2.

Wilma and Leonie are both German Jews living in Paris. They don’t know each other, but they too travel to the same seaport in Southern France to follow Benjamin’s route over the mountain.

Over the Mountain is about sex, tennis and philosophy, and about the way across, to the other side of something. But above all it’s a novel about love, about the very ability to make a commitment to somebody. The novel explores how love is connected to the child 46 within, and how connecting to somebody is also connecting with yourself. Beautiful and powerful. Is Over the Mountain Hanne Ørstavik’s most beautiful novel? ... With every book it becomes clearer how powerful and consequent this author’s work is - Hamar Arbeiderblad, 5/6 stars

Hanne Ørstavik With the publication of the novel Cut in 1994, Hanne Ørstavik (b. 1969) embarked on a career that would make her one of the most re- markable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her breakthrough came with Love (1997), which in 2006 was voted the 6th best Norwegian book of the last 25 years in a prestigious con- test. Since then the author has written several acclaimed and much Photo: Hanne Engelbert discussed novels and received a host of literary prizes.

Over fjellet Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2017 256 pages Even Råkil, Rights Director Aschehoug Fiction & Non-Fiction [email protected]

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