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FICTION / NON-FICTION FORLAGET OKTOBER 3 A Child Forever Forlaget Oktober Forlaget 24- Tron Jensen Tron 24- Senderud Kjersti Bronken - 25 Ingvild Solstad-Nøis - 26 Torgersen Bård - 27 Kielland Røise Karen - 28 14 - Maria Sand Maria - 14 16 - Helle, Pryds NOR: Merete Ibsen - 18 Klas Östergren & Vigdis Hjorth Almaas Bjørn Esben - 20 Line Baugstø - 21 Øyvind Berg - 22 Blad Petter Hans - 23 Content 4 - Klara Hveberg - 4 Stranger Simon - 6 Gaarder Jostein - 8 Kjos Fonn Maria - 9 10 -Monica Isakstuen Gallefoss Lasse - 11 Lindell Unni - 12 Literary fiction Literary Cover illustration by Exil Design, taken from the front cover of Maria Sand: publisher. osloliteraryagency.no

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"Klara Hveberg The and organic. refined that appears both undercurrent humoristic constant with a but mathematics and literature, music, to references with well-tuned packed book is also philosophy." Budstikke, Romsdals - the novel: From On longing: It be notified. organ in the body must every love, from someone you away to walk In order For the heart the body its mind. can make up for the made brain to have sufficient is not the earlobes,turn around. As can the eyelids, the lips, the uterus, the neck pit, the gut, the can make — the umbilicalpit even yes, — the toes, the iliac crest, the popliteals, the loved of where imprints spaces in-between, body turn around. As can the deceitful the chin toes. The distance between nameless be concealed. The space between one may me now. friends. with Come my the labia. Come, The space between pit. and the throat all. 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With naive and mercilessly sharp, she dissects what may be her life's only love story, looking for answers in numbers, music and literature. At nineteen, she moves to Oslo to attend nineteen, she moves to Oslo At Jakob. He is her profes university, and meets on a novel aboutsor, and also working Sofja who the first woman became a Kovalevskaja, Just as Kovalevskaja Mathematics professor. older advisor, was very close to her much Rakel and Jakob are instantly drawn to each other and eventually become lovers, although he is married. In the years to come, Rakel's academic career her bed soars, but her health declines. From side she imagines the life of Sofja while trying An unforgettable debut novel aboutAn unforgettable mathe very thin line music and the matics, classical between loneliness. great love and great for mathematics, and Rakel has a rare talent for misunderstandings. an even greater talent the art of making She has never mastered friends, but sees boats kissing on the fjord sees them crossing. when everyone else just Novel pages 305 is her first novel. The title is her first novel. - Lean Your Loneliness Slowly against Mine Lean Your mathematics. author . is a slightly altered line from a poem by the Norwegian Author Klara Hveberg (b. 1974) studied music and literature before obtaining Author Klara Hveberg fractals, the elusive, incredibly her PhD in mathematics, writing her thesis on beautiful, geometrical formations who might be as close as you get to art in a little less lonely with this book on my nightstand." - VG "A remarkable novel (...) I was both in both (...) I was novel remarkable "A in love falling myself and found trigued has written Klara Hveberg with Rakel. I feel story in D minor. love a beautiful Foreign rights sold: rights sold: Foreign Germany Lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min mot langsomt din ensomhet Lene 2019 Aschehoug, Klara Hveberg Klara Hveberg Loneliness Mine Against Slowly Lean Your

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION 4 Simon Stranger

Keep Saying Their Names From the reviews:

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION Sold in 17 territories "A compulsive twist on familiar stories from WW2. Simon Stranger has ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION been inspired by this to write the best novel about the arrest of Norwegian Winner of the Booksellers Prize 2018 Jews since Steinar Løding’s “Erindringens tre (eng: The Tree of Memory)” Winner of the Riksmål Prize 2018 (1992). Both the story of Rinnan and the story of the Kommisar family, in particular of Ellen and her growing despair about living in “Bandekloster- et”, is told in a prose that glows and sparkles and makes this story horribly A chilling and gripping double portrait of engaging", a young man who became a torturist and -Dagbladet, 6/6 stars a family that would have been an entirely different one had Norway not been invaded "Riveting and beautiful (...) This book deserves to be read by very many" in 1940. - Bok 365, 6/6 stars

What turns the bashful shoemaker’s son Hen- "Masterly and frightful" ry Rinnan from Trøndelag into one of the - Adresseavisen, 6/6 stars most hated criminals in Norwegian history; a double agent killing Norwegians for the Na- "Remarkably well-done. Stranger is making a bold move when choosing zis? And why would a Jewish family want to to write an entire novel about themes every well-read person knows very move into Rinnan’s headquarters shortly after well. When «Leksikon om lys og mørke» is still such a successful project, the sole reason is the author’s literary talent. This novel is intense with a the war, in the house that for many became tremendous narrative drive, at the same time as the prose has an almost 6 the very symbol of the atrocities committed flowing lightness to it" 7 - VG, 5/6 stars during the German occupation?

According to Jewish tradition everyone dies Spanning over four generations, Simon "As the title more than suggests, Stranger has composed this book with a twice. The first time is when the heart stops kind of encyclopedic structure, each chapter starting with a letter. This is beating, and the synapses in the brain shut Stranger skillfully constructs a story consist- no simple task, but it works excellently, even with letters like X, Y and Z. down, like a city during a blackout. The sec- ing of the most beautiful and painful elements Very little appear superfluous and the high quality of the prose is upheld all ond time is when the dead person’s name is the way through till the end. uttered, read or thought of for the last time, of human life in this epic and ambitious after fifty or hundred or four hundred years. novel, pieces that when put together also Stranger writes wonderfully, there is no doubt about it. The language is Only then, is the person really gone, erased becomes the history of his own family. economic, almost ascetic, but flows beautifully. Here are no bombastic from life on Earth. metaphors. Stranger goes straight to the core, also emotionally. The con- trast between the sober prose (the last few pages are some of the most wistfully dreadful I have read in Norwegian) and the dirty, bloody and ma- cabre gives the at times scandalously violent content a lyrical dimension. It leaves the reader with a sense of pensive unease. Simon Stranger Stranger's descriptions of agony of death and resignation are frightening Simon Stranger (b. 1976) made his debut in 2003, and has since written ten and sad. The most horrible scenes are cold and observing, yet empathetic, and makes me think of an author like Flannery O’Connor." books for children, young adults and adults. His books for children and young - Minerva adults have been translated into Swedish, Danish, German, French, Dutch, Ara- bic, Spanish, Korean, Japanese and Kurdish. His latest children ’s book Kokotopia Foreign rights sold: (2018) became an instant bestseller in Norway. Keep Saying Their Names is his USA, Germany, The Netherlands. France, Italy, Spain, China, Denmark, Sweden, first novel published by Aschehoug Forlag. Photo: André Løyning/saftflaske.no Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, Catalan, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Faroe Is- lands. Leksikon om lys og mørke Novel Aschehoug, 2018 396 pages Jostein Gaarder Maria Kjos Fonn Just Right. A Brief History of Almost Everything Kinderwhore

ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION On his first day at the University in Oslo, Nominated to the ASCHEHOUG - LITERARY FICTION Albert notices a girl, Eirin. They have never Nominated to the P2 Listeners' Novel Prize met before. Still, both startle as they see each other. 37 years later, in April 2009, Eirin is Charlotte’s mother is always at home, yet in Melbourne at a biology conference, and hardly ever there. Most of the time she is Albert is alone when he receives some truly asleep, heavily medicated in order to remain terrible news from Marianne. Can he go on so. When she is not asleep, she brings home living with what he knows? new dads for Charlotte. One of them shows her a glimpse of something else, something He travels to The Fairytale House, the small better. But too soon, he is replaced by yet cabin that has been Eirin’s and his safe haven another dad. for many years. And grants himself a 24 hour deadline to write down the history of their When Charlotte is 12 something happens, life together. During the course of this time, something she cannot possibly take in or he will make the most important decision process. She starts making use of her moth- of his life. And there are things he needs to er’s pills, happy to learn that there are ways confess, things that involve Marianne. He will of shutting off your feelings. She establishes a 8 not check out from this planet leaving behind divide between her body and mind, allow- 9 a great lie... ing her to take on different sexual roles, like the sedated, passive Doll or the proactive Foreign rights sold: Germany, Spain, China, Czech Republic, On the surface, this is a simple story of a Foreign rights sold: Machine. Greece, Italy, Korea, Serbia, Poland, day in the life of a man. But being a Jostein Germany, Denmark Ukraine, Romania, Indonesia, Slovakia Gaarder novel, it also takes on some of the A raw, powerful and important story of sexu- greatest questions each of us can possibly "A powerful novel that will stay with the ality, assault and survival. grapple with in a beautiful love story, with a reader for a long time (…) an unusually tal- final, surprising plot twist. ented storyteller" - VG

Jostein Gaarder Maria Kjos Fonn

Jostein Gaarder's novel Sophie’s World is the biggest Norwegian literary Maria Kjos Fonn (b. 1990) made her debut with the critically ac- success in our time, translated into 64 languages and has sold 50 claimed short story collection I Have Never Told Anyone About This in million copies worldwide. Gaarder’s other works, both his children’s 2014. She was nominated to the ’ Debutant Award and books and adult novels, amongst them The Solitaire Mystery, Through recieved the Aschehoug Debutant Stipend for her first book. She lives a Glass, Darkly, The Ringmaster’s Daughter, The Orange Girl, and The in Oslo and works as a journalist. Kinderwhore is her first novel. Puppeteer, have proved hugely popular with readers around the world. Photo: Kimm Saatvedt

Akkurat passe Novel Kinderwhore Novel Aschehoug, 2018 135 pages Aschehoug, 2018 231 pages Monica Isakstuen Lasse Gallefoss Rage Warriors' Peace

PELIKANEN - LITERARY FICTION "One of the best books of 2019" ASCHEHOUG - CRIME & THRILLERS Norwegian Book Award winning author Tom Egeland, VG Monica Isakstuen’s new novel explores the protagonist’s sudden, uncontrollable anger World War II is over and the victors govern with the ones closest to her. the country. During the German occupation Storm Steinset was a double agent for the Rage is a story about two thinking, talking Norwegian Resistance Movement, and his people who meet, fall in love, have twins mission is still covert; he gave an oath never and buy an old ramshackle house more or to reveal his true activities during the war, less before they know what hit them. Sitting even in peacetime. This means he must live topless and pinned to her sofa by a giant twin with the fact that his colleagues in the Oslo nursing pillow (or rather pillory), the protag- Police Department think he was a Nazi. onist wonders what is left of the person she presented to her partner a year and two years When several policemen who worked for the earlier. How do you love someone so that Nazis during the war were found dead of the they really feel it? she asks herself. And am I same torture methods they themselves used the sum of my actions or my ideals? during the war, Storm realises that he too 10 must be on the killer’s death list. At the same 11 Isakstuen’s original prose moves unexpect- time he has been assigned to investigate the "A pageturner about the unease in the edly, but organically, between extremely "A convincing and intense crime thriller, case. family"- Morgenbladet precise and brilliant insights and moments of well composed and well written" - VG the most banal self-deception in this funny, Storm’s partner is the police force’s youngest "Intense, crystal clear and og poetic about urgent and timely novel. "If you have not already taken note of the deputy, a rising star Robert Rødberg who a mother losing her composure" name Lasse Gallefoss, do it" - Dagbladet - Klassekampen dreams of becoming a hero - and despises Rage is edited by Karl Ove Knausgaard. people like Storm. "Sophisticated and surprising" - Bergens Tidende

Monica Isakstuen Lasse Gallefoss

Monica Isakstuen (b. 1976) made her literary debut in 2009, and won Lasse Gallefoss (1980) is a director and documentary filmmaker. the Brage Prize (the Norwegian national book award) for her 2016 Several of his series have been nominated for a Gold Frame Award, novel Be Kind to The Animals, translated into German, Swedish, Dan- the Norwegian Emmy, and his latest series Flight (2017) won three ish, Bulgarian and Albanian. The critic in Aftonbladet, Sweden, named Gold Frames, among others for best director. the book "The best divorce novel I have ever read". Her 2014 novel Replay about pianist Joyce Hatto and ”the greatest fraud in classical music” earned glowing reviews. Photo: Tommy Ellingsen Photo: Vegard Dahle Bergheim

Rase Novel Krigerens fred Novel Pelikanen, 2018 228 pages Aschehoug 2018 491 pages FORLAGET OKTOBER 13 Content Forlaget Oktober Forlaget 14 - Maria Sand Maria - 14 16 -Edvard Hoem Helle, Pryds NOR: Merete Ibsen - 18 Klas Östergren & Vigdis Hjorth Almaas Bjørn Esben - 20 Line Baugstø - 21 Øyvind Berg - 22 Blad Petter Hans - 23 Jensen Tron - 24 Senderud Kjersti Bronken - 25 Ingvild Solstad-Nøis - 26 Torgersen Bård - 27 Kielland Røise Karen - 28 Heggø Olav Photo:

is the second novel featuring Crime fiction Crime pages 376 The Drone The Marian Dahle. The drone approaches the open area of a drone approaches The suddenly appears on the rapeseed field. A tent tent stands exactly where The monitor. drone’s was stabbeddeath five years to Thorn Evie And now another woman comes into earlier. her tent on the exact Did she really pitched view. a wide sun sinks down creating same spot? The segmented line on the horizon, and disappears. heart mans’s birds stop twittering. The The He has pounds like a hammer against his chest. should not be out never had a girlfriend. Women camping alone, not in the dark forest. A man stands in a closed down military camp in a closed down A man stands forest. He is a drone ut into a dark and sends Friday, 16th June, 17 09.35, The time is filming. degrees celsius, just before sundown. trees seem to be tops of the pine in flames The create a sharp dividing as the last rays of sunlight and dark green. line of brilliant orange , Greek, , Greek,

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Dronen 2018 Aschehoug, prestigious prizes for her writing. to four million copies in Norway alone. Lindell has won many to four million copies in Norway crime mysteries featuring Cato Isaksen and Marian Dahle have been translated into many different languages and have sold close Unni Lindell (b. 1957) is one of Norway’s best-selling authors. Her Unni Lindell (b. 1957) is one of Norway’s Unni Lindell Unni "Exciting moments queing up" - - up" moments queing "Exciting "Well composed and intellingent" - - and intellingent" composed "Well "Masterful crime", 5/6 stars, - - stars, 5/6 "Masterful crime", "Unni LIndell at her best", 5/ 6 stars, - - 6 stars, LIndell at her best", 5/ "Unni Foreign rights sold: rights sold: Foreign Icelandic

The Drone The Unni Lindell Unni

ASCHEHOUG - CRIME & THRILLERS 12 Maria Sand A Child Forever There’s an IKEA box I shoved under the bed that can hold quite a bit. I filled it with duct tape and canned food – chickpeas, corn, lentils, tuna. I went to the hardware store and got those little masks you can wear over your nose and FORLAGET OKTOBER The adults in Mi’s family quarrel and make mouth and put those in there too, plus a few half-liter bottles of water. I put two FORLAGET OKTOBER love, leave each other and beg for forgive- jugs of spring water behind the cupboard in the basement as well. Leo doesn’t ness. Every Sunday, her grandfather reads see that they’re there, but he isn’t looking. He doesn’t wonder what I’m doing the Catechism in the house in Malurtveien when I’m dragging the big jugs down the cellar stairs. He doesn’t say hi when he 10, where Mi lives when her actor mother comes or bye when he leaves, he just sinks down in his chair and eats in silence. is on tour. Mi’s father has set his watch on Don’t look anyone in the eye, Mom said to me each morning before I California time, in case one of the major film walked to school. Just walk straight forward without looking at anyone. Why? I asked, but she didn’t answer, just wrapped my scarf around my studios finally calls. neck more tightly and pushed me out the door, afraid I’d be late. Dad told me about duct tape and the Cold War – that you might have to As an adult Mi is prepared for the worst. She tape all the windows shut with it, all the little cracks and everything. He said this has grown up with stories of fatal accidents as he stubbed out his cigarette in the large marble ashtray that was always on his that have struck her family, starting with desk. The light from the desk lamp made his eyes even bigger, even darker. Mi’s great-grandmother when she was newly It’s important to plug up the cracks properly, he said, and told me about married. You have to watch the cars, mind radioactivity and uranium and the big mushrooms that blossom in the sky, that get mixed in the air and rain and settle on our clothes. the water, and never, ever look a stranger It’s important to pay attention, said Dad. Don’t mess around in traffic, in the eyes. But Mi's husband Leo doesn't said Mom. No boots in the boat, said Grandpa. No bags over your head, said understand that disaster can strike again at Grandma. And in a way they were all talking over one another: Don’t look people 14 any time. That their two small children are in in the eye. Don’t talk to strangers. Remember the license plate number if someone 15 constant danger. is driving behind you for too long. Never walk alone in the dark, never, and call as soon as you get there. Do you promise? Do you promise, Mi? A Child Forever is a captivating novel about a Of course, I said, looking at them all standing around me – Dad at his Catholic family of bohemian actors and writ- desk with the phone receiver between his head and shoulder, cigarette smoking in front of him. Mom with a script in her lap, makeup in her purse, the high boots ers through four generations, about ill fortune with fringes that clack when she comes back from evening performances – I’m passed on, and about being the one who has never asleep then; I always wait for her to come home. Grandpa is in the boat taken it on herself to avoid the next disaster. on Lake Mjøsa, pulling in the nets, squeezing the innards out of the fish, reading during morning services, singing louder than everyone in the church. But Grand- ma just sits silently at the table, her spoon spinning the soup carefully. There is a V between her eyes, a furrow that is never smooth. No one ever asked what she was thinking about, no one asked what she said when she suddenly whispered something so quietly it was impossible to hear her words, but we all knew what Maria Sand was no longer there.

Maria Sand was born in Oslo in 1981, and trained as an actor in Translated by Olivia Lasky Rome. She made her literary debut in 2015 with the novel Hold Your Breath for as Long as You Can.

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Malurtveien 10 Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2019 272 pages FORLAGET OKTOBER 17 - - - - - Translated by Ingvild Burkey Ingvild by Translated It was autumnal, but not cold. The air was clear, the leaves were were the leaves clear, The air was cold. not but autumnal, It was seem didn’t just Stina, called often whom they Marta Kristine, ‘Thanks curtsying. having me!’ she said, ‘Thanks having for for laughed. They mind at all that she is doesn’t ‘she said, at the lass,’ they ‘Look on her way get hardly little body could the busy it seemed No, A crowd of people were heading down to the shore at Gjermund the shore to heading down of people were A crowd explaining at length how far they were about to journey. to about were they far at length how explaining ere one sported a coloured waistcoat, a red knitted cap, a blue necker a blue cap, knitted a red one sported waistcoat, ere a coloured chief. the fjord.around on the hillsides On the highest moun turning yellow winter that a new see could Everyone snow. fallen newly lay taintops off and servants taken had children The crofters and their on itswas way. and their Karen, his wife Knudsen, Anders to bid farewell to work from who those of lives the in day big a was It Marta Kristine. daughter little of the Roms side other Nesje on the to moving were leaving. They were and and a butcher as a shoemaker worked dalsfjord. Knudsen Anders and thrifty and had hard-working he was man, but a wealthy hardly was farmer retired a of house the bought had He cheerfula life. on outlook for Dreyer Peter Nicolay Captain from there, the shore right by which lay of 150 riksdaler. the sum She ever. birthplaceher leave for to about was she that grieving be to the and girls by taking boys with a big smile on her face, around walked hand. me!’ again?’ laughter happy hear your to never we leaving us! Are under her arm, a ragdoll she carried with chattered She quickly enough. The first thing Marta Kristine could remember from her childhood was childhood her from remember Martacould first thing The Kristine she year the in 1800, day one October It happened crossing. a rough turn seven. would homespun wore All intermingled. womenfolk men and nes in Romsdal, kerchiefs. or shawls wore women married The wool. coarse of clothes and th here manner of adults, though in the dressed were The children - -

- Photo: Paal Audestad Paal Photo: NRK P2 Novel 352 pages “Hoem is […] a brilliant storyteller, who effortlessly who “Hoem is […] a brilliant storyteller, charged emotionally into life everyday transforms book” magnificent moving, … a beautiful, stories - first midwives was strong, leading to con first midwives was strong, sequences for both Martha and her family. to pay for those is a always a price There who follow their calling. Based on historical facts, Hoem makes Marta is This come alive with great poetic power. daughter who didn’t the story of a cotter’s who re name and want to take her husband’s fused to be affected by village gossip. It is also the story of the emergence of the important midwife profession. In 1821 Edvard Hoem’s great-great grand great-great Hoem’s In 1821 Edvard took the Kristine Nesje, mother, Marta of coast from the North-Western long walk to become to Oslo Norway At a midwife. the youngest children, the time she had two one. When she finished having barely turned and started back, her training, she walked as a midwife in the practicing her vocation of the Romsdal villages and rural districts in the for more than 50 years. Distrust Fjord 5/6 stars 5/6 Dagbladet, Dagbladet, Jordmor på jorda 2018 Oktober, Forlaget In 2014 he published the first of a multi-volume family In 2014 he published the first of a multi-volume saga about the four books published so far have America. The emigration to North A US edition is due in 2020. sold more than 200,000 copies in Norway. published numerous novels, and has been nominated for the Nordic Hoem has also written plays, Literary Prize four times. Council’s essays and biographies and has translated seven Shakespeare plays. Edvard Hoem Edvard Edvard Hoem (born 1949) made his debut in 1969. He has since Edvard Hoem Edvard on Earth Midwife tempted to use clichees and melodrama." use to tempted - time of big changes … With a powerful pen, Hoem time of big changes … With a powerful and her ability tribulations Martaportrays Kristine’s writing into great them. He makes overcome to entertainment,powerful, illuminating being without “The novel is full of conflicts, but also a warm love warm love a but also of conflicts, “The is full novel in a profession story and a story the midwife about

FORLAGET OKTOBER 16 NATUR & KULTUR / FORLAGET OKTOBER / ROSINANTE 19 - - - and is a Gen with genders Henrik Falk , which won both, which The Lady from the Sea The Hedda Gabler , and puts her life in a wider (1980), Östergren has been one of Swe Wills and Testaments Wills Oslo, 2018: The unsuccessful, upper-class unsuccessful, upper-class The Oslo, 2018: from his returns Falk Henrik stockbroker in his already feeling trapped honeymoon, a conventional, unfortunately marriage with is old whose main passion pregnant wife, that his When Henrik learns folk costumes. has bought his old ex-lover, the artist Tale, with his own family home, he is confronted failed aspirations to greatness. reinterpretation of and the story set in our time. switched most popular novelists, One of Norway's a peak in her career in 2016 Hjorth reached with and the Critics' Prize the Booksellers' Prize and became the year's biggest selling novel. 144 pages a Norwegian Berlin, mid-1920s: Hilde Wangel, anxiety tourist office employee, suffers a severe in an outdoor cafe. Is there a link to the attack dramatic events as a youth in her small home decades earlier? In this novel, town in Norway Östergren gives center stage to the enigmatic of support character Masterbuilder The European cultural context. since his massively successful novel Ever tlemen author of numerous den's leading writers. The inventive, entertaining novels and stories, he has also translated several Ibsen plays. Novel 250 pages Novel Photo: Viktor Gårdsäter Viktor Photo: Hilde 2019 Autumn Kultur, & Natur Photo: Agnete Brun Agnete Photo: Henrik Falk 2019 Autumn Oktober, Forlaget Östergren Klas Hilde Vigdis HjorthVigdis Falk Henrik - - - , are An Enemy , , Helle goes Nora Hedda Gabler which won both which De and A Doll's House famously ends with Nora famously ends with Nora Ghosts , The People's Beauty People's The Novel 288 pages In the Ibsen NOR project, three of today’s In the Ibsen NOR project, three of today’s storytellers have beengreatest Scandinavian a novel based on Ibsen's asked to freely write result: three thought-provoking, works. The absorbing novels showing their authors at their very best. of the People beconstantly proven to as relevant - even were when they were scandalous - as they 1800s. first staged in the late 100,000 copies in Denmark. declaring her independence and leaving her declaring her independence and leaving her In husband and children. in time to explore the roots of Nora's back conflict, reimagining the story from her point of view: her marriage as a very young woman of the oppressive her experience to Torvald, demands of society, and her desperate strug gle to save her husband after his breakdown. Merete Pryds Helle had a huge breakthrough with Literature gyldne laurbær and Politiken's novel has sold more than Prize in 2016. The A Doll's House Widely regarded as the most important play as the most important regarded Widely Ibsen's po Shakespeare, Henrik wright since an estimated strong as ever, with sition is as stage around taking the 150 new productions His social dramas in the world every season. as particular, such

Nora 2019 Autumn Rosinante, Photo: Trine Søndergaard Trine Photo: Nora Merete Pryds Helle Pryds Merete involved: Natur & Kultur, Oktober involved: Natur & Kultur, and Rosinante. NOR publishers is short for the three Ibsen

NATUR & KULTUR / FORLAGET OKTOBER / ROSINANTE 18 Bjørn Esben Almaas Line Baugstø The Good Friend Rooms of Their Own

FORLAGET OKTOBER In The Good Friend we follow a 11 year old It’s the summer of 1985, and Sigrid feels that FORLAGET OKTOBER boy during a few autumn months in 1987. she finally has greater freedom. Her ailing The second part of the story takes part in father has finally been given a room in a 2013, when the main character has married nursing home, and her children have set up and himself become a father to two boys. their own lives in the capital. But when Sigrid starts cleaning out her childhood home, she From August to November 1987, something discovers that the women of the family have happens with the boy. He is being pushed hardly left a trace. around by classmates and other people around him. But there is also something In the previous two novels about Sigrid, Line else going on. He becomes evasive and less Baugstø explored women’s lives in the 1960s talkative. He doesn’t want to be a boy scout and 70s. The backdrop to Rooms of Their anymore, and doesn’t want to go to school. Own is the 1980s and the neo-liberal turn. But what has really happened? Everything is about individual freedom, but Sigrid can’t run away from her responsibility As an adult we meet him as everyday family for others. The novels about Sigrid revolve life threatens to slip away from him, and a around the sense of duty and longing for 20 sudden abyss appears among those closest freedom, absence and presence, and how 21 to him: How do you see your children when relationships in a family are always in a state you yourself knows so much about the vul- of change. nerability of being a child?

Almaas portrays a young boy’s sensitivity and innocence with tenderness and compassion. The Good Friend is a powerful story that step by step reveals the fragile threads between the child and the adult.

Bjørn Esben Almaas Line Baugstø Bjørn Esben Almaas (born 1975) made his debut in 2001 with the Line Baugstø (born 1961) published her first book in 1986, the novel collection of short stories Costa del Sol which received great reviews. Journey with Yellow Light. Baugstø has since written numerous novels, In 2003 his first novel,Katzenjammer , was published. His third novel short story collections and children's book, as well as non-fiction and Sleep or Speak of Love was published in 2008. He has also made short plays. Rooms of Their Own is her 11th novel. films and written movie scripts. Photo: Lene Sørøy Neverdal Photo: Pernille M. Walvik

Den gode vennen Novel Egne rom Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2019 160 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2019 256 pages Øyvind Berg Hans Petter Blad The Rose Novel The Paris Offices - Provenance, Book 3

FORLAGET OKTOBER On the day that our rose breeder is born, As a young man, the author Lukas Hørslev FORLAGET OKTOBER roseromanen there is a mix-up at the birth clinic. He discovers Paris. There he establishes what he spends his first years with a Jewish family calls his “Paris offices” – cafes, restaurants, who calls him Jacob, while his unnatural, night clubs, parks, casinos and metro stations dark-haired brother, causes speculations where he can sit and write. about his mother’s fidelity. 5 years later the mistake is discovered and the boys immedi- The novel weaves together Lukas Hørslev’s ately switch families as well as names. The trips to Paris through several decades, creat- blonde mother’s honour is restored, but her ing a literary map of the city, its places and love seems to have vanished. people. It’s about Paris the way it shapes him, but also about his turbulent relationship to Both boys will have to pay for the mistake his childhood friend, the actor Sindre Eggen, throughout their lives. Jacob becomes a poet about the tension between the author who and more or less settles in among artists of creates and the actor who interprets reali- various kind, while our hero dedicates his ty, and about the meaning of friendship in

øyvind berg life to rose breeding, constantly searching for human life. forlaget oktober the perfect specimen. But a perfect rose can 22 quickly turn out to be fateful, and when the The Paris Offices is a study of a city and a 23 authorities start taking an interest in the gar- culture, an author’s guide to Paris and an dener, he has to pack his hundred thousand attempt to understand a life through the lens roses and go into exile. of a metropolis.

The Rose Novel is Øyvind Berg’s first novel. In a tender playful prose he gives us a dramatic story of origins, about loving that which cannot be held and about the bliss of rose breeding.

Øyvind Berg Hans Petter Blad Øyvind Berg (born 1959) made his debut with the poetry collection Hans Petter Blad was born in 1962. Since his debut in 2002 with the Directions in 1982. He has since published numerous collections of novel In the Shadow of Small Men in the Middle of the Day, he has pub- poetry and essays, as well as plays and poetry translations. Known for lished both novels and poetry. The Paris Offices is his fifth novel and a his irreverent, pioneering mix of high and low, he is the recipient of freestanding sequel to the novels Living Biographically and A Map of several major literary prizes, including the Brage Prize. the Realm of Tenderness. Photo: Monica Larsen Photo: Katharina Barbosa

Roseromanen Novel Paris-kontorene - Proveniens, Tredje bok Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2019 230 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2019 200 pages Tron Jensen Kjersti Bronken Senderud In the Summer Wind The Hotel FORLAGET OKTOBER Henrik is divorced from Mona and father to The hotel is old and remote, surrounded FORLAGET OKTOBER two adult sons. The youngest one is about to by a garden with a lawn and gravel paths, a marry, while the oldest, Simon, is an eternal pavilion and a pond with water lilies. In the cause of worry for his father. woods behind the hotel, there's a small lake, and further away, the fjord and the beach. But on top of mind for Henrik is his plan to pick up a broken friendship. He intends A young girl arrives together with her father to travel to a classical music festival and see and brother, haunted by the death of her Mogens, the Danish musicologist who taught mother. The girl observes the other hotel him how to listen bar for bar. At the time, guests. Some are on holiday, others have Schönberg, Berg and Webern were all the settled in, perhaps for good. They play pool rage, while more atmospheric, melodic works and croquet, go bicycling in the forest, or were frowned at. Henrik accepted Mogens’ smoke and talk softly around the tables in the teachings without reservations, until that garden. The hotel seems out of time, a place fateful night at a modern art museumt, where where all sorrows can find a room. Norway’s musical elite had gathered to sit on the floor, breaking twigs in time with a The girl is intrigued by Lola, the manager’s 24 poetry reading by John Cage. daughter. Lola has little interest in the short 25 term guests, but she does keep an eye on “In addition to being an excellent poet, Kjersti When his oldest son Simon shows up with Bronken Senderud has also developed into becom- this new girl. And then there is Njål, the a girlfriend, Henrik sees hope, even for him. ing a distinctive novelist. With The Hotel she is at receptionist with all the books. It is a summer Let this become an unforgettable summer her best " unlike any other, in a place out of a fairy tale. with Simon!, the slightly desperate music lov- - Hamar Arbeiderblad, 5/6 stars er thinks to himself. And in the festival town, The Hotel is a novel about meeting yourself "Senderud’s new novel quivers in the field of ten- he finally meets the sharp-tongued professor sion between heaven and earth … [the story lives in someone else, about grief and inadequacy Mogens again. on] in the readers’ thoughts long after it’s finished" and attempts to reconcile, written in lumi- - Vårt Land nous, muted prose.

Tron Jensen Kjersti Bronken Senderud Tron Jensen (b. 1958) made his debut in 1990 with the novel The Kjersti Bronken Senderud (b. 1971) is a highly regarded poet, who Man Who Loved Chileans. In the Summer Wind is his sixth novel. published her first collection of poetry in 1997. In addition to a num- ber of acclaimed poetry collections, she has written a prose collection and our novels. A selection of her poems have been translated into Swedish by Ann Jäderlind. Photo: Finn Ståle Felberg Photo: Paal Audestad

I sommervinden Novel Hotellet Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2019 192 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2019 192 pages Ingvild Solstad-Nøis Bård Torgersen Eid Yearn Crush Hit FORLAGET OKTOBER

FORLAGET OKTOBER Eid’s marriage is over. Together with her Einar grows up in a poor suburb to Oslo, and teenage daughter Alida, she has moved to a spends his time with his unstoppable friend small island community, where everything Daniel, roaming around with an axe, breaking will surely be different. in to houses, running away from home. Determined to make a space for themselves Without hesitation she throws herself into in the world, they refuse to bow to anybody. her new existence, a keen observer and But one day, Einar does something that sets analyst of other people, of their problems and in motion a chain of events that will change faults, and of her self and her relationships. lives – and destroy them – forever. Above all she observes Alida, and the two of them together. Eid has clear visions for the Einar is part of the great countercultural future. Alida needs help to find a solid plat- underground that created great changes in form, to stand up for herself and get a good the 1970s and 80s. But he is not one of those life. And a friend. looking to make a career, to be admired, to stand out. He is one of those who want to Eid has the best intentions when she photo- destroy, turn Oslo on its head on the night graphs Emma, the girl next door, dancing. before May 1, make the city his own. One of 26 She a large print of the photo to Emma, who those who would rather attack than turn the 27 feels that someone has seen her, for the first other cheek.

time. And Eid’s intentions are still good when “A desperate book on a lost generation … Torgers- “An intense portrait of an angry young man from she invites Emma’s father into her house. en’s literary arsenal is like a powder keg. You only the suburb … one of [Torgersen’s] best books ... a It looks like a friendship will grow between need one creative, epic spark to make it all blow up complex, intimate, moving and terrifying portrait … them, but Emma’s mother is less enthusiastic. … The prose is fast-paced, compact, intense ... It The story is of the darker kind, written with lots of hits you like a blow from the axe Einar usually keeps insight and consideration, nicely balanced against hidden in the arm of his denim jacket. Straight to the anger and aggressivity in Einar’s uncompromis- Eid is a sharply observed novel about a wom- your skull" ing voice" an who tirelessly works on filling in the space - Dagbladet, 5/6 stars - Dagsavisen between reality and ideals.

Ingvild Solstad-Nøis Bård Torgersen

Ingvild Solstad-Nøis (b. 1973) lives in Tromsø. She made her debut in Writer and musician Bård Torgersen (b. 1967) lives in Oslo. Since 2011 with the novel I Thought It Wold be Nice to Come Here, followed making his literary debut with the acclaimed novel Everything Must by Quiet Zone in 2013. Go (2005), he has published several disturbing, surreally funny novels as well as mini collections of poetry, cultivating a unique style that alternates between – or combines – the innocent and the menacing. Photo: Yngve Olsen Sæbbe Photo: Mona Ødegård

Eid Novel Lengter knuser slår Novel Forlaget Oktober, 2019 200 pages Forlaget Oktober, 2019 192 pages Karen Røise Kielland Walking with Kølle

FORLAGET OKTOBER Walking with Kølle is a travelogue about to expeditions to Europe. Karen Røise Kielland walks from the village Hov in south-east Nor- way to Venice, following the footsteps of the artist, adventurer and walking tourist Cath- arina Hermine Kølle, who walked the same route in 1841. As far as possible, Kielland follows the same roads. And like Kølle, she gets by without maps, telephone or music.

Walking with Kølle is an illustrated journey through a European cultural landscape. At the same time, the book is a journey in time, through Kølle’s diary entries, which work as a historical road map for the author, and through traces of the past in objects, Photo: Endre Aalrust architecture and art. It is an original and 28 fascinating reflection on cultural history and social change, about distance and speed, then and now.

Karen Røise Kielland Karen Røise Kielland (born 1975 in Oslo) is a stage artist. After graduating from the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam, she has both written and coreographed works her own works and performed in the works of visual artists and coreographers. Walking with Kølle is her first book.

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