Gyldendal pocket
Escaping Frank
Herbjørg WassmoSanne is an author who writes literary books. She has a relationship with Frank, an antique dealer and gambler, who has promised to leave his wife for Sanne when he hits the…
Buzz Aldrin - What Happened to You in all the Confusion?
Johan HarstadThe years us 1999. The final year before the future begins. Mattias is a gardener and was born on the night that man landed on the moon in 1969. His greatest wish is not to get in…
Biography - Diary - Letter
Tomas EspedalHow do you transform your most basic and important experiences into words? How do you transform your self into words? How can you write about the death of your life partner? How…
Doing Good
Trude MarsteinCritics' Prize 2006. P.O. Enquist Prize 2006 In the second half of the book it goes back to Saturday morning. It is a beautiful composition, very elegantly mastered, and at the…
A Glass of Milk, Please
Herbjørg WassmoDorte has never harboured dreams of a big adventure. She is fifteen and lives in the heart of the lithuanian countryside where her dreams are homebound and rooted in reality. They…
The Wells
Hans Herbjørnsrud“When in the winter of 1976, I left college in Sagaheim to take over the family farm here in Heddal, I had in my possession a skeleton and an anatomy book.” Thus opens the longest…
Tramp (Or the art of living a wild and poetic life)
Tomas EspedalWalking. Setting out on foot, out onto the open road; a romantic venture, yet filled with tough experiences: sleeping outdoors, losing one’s way, confronting one’s limitations,…
Svendsen’s Catering
Kyrre AndreassenJohannes Svendsen aspires to nothing more than a steady flow of business for his catering company, money in the bank and days of tranquillity with the family. But life does not…
Horsepower
Lars MyttingErik Fyksen, the owner of Norway’s last Mobilstasjon gas station, needs to mobilize his life and leave the service pit behind. Plans for realignment of the road and modernization…
Hässelby
Johan HarstadHässelby is a novel about many things. It’s about Albert Åberg and his father, who does the best he can and still ends up a helpless idiot. It’s about a minor disaster that…
The Best Among Us
Helene UriThey both work for the prestigious and cutting edge Institute of Futuristic Linguistics, where researchers register and study how language will appear in the future. Nanna is in…
Nylon Angel
Helene UriBut when the long-awaited child is born, nothing is as she expected. Everyone says that a mother will always love her child, but Beate is riddled with doubt. Does she love her…
A Righteous Man
Helene UriKarsten and Marianne fall in love, marry each other, have children … and then Karsten commits adultery. In her anger and bitterness, Marianne begins to suspect Karsten of having…
A Hundred Years
Herbjørg WassmoA Hundred Years is a novel about the lives of Sara Susanne, Elida and Hjørdis, Herbjørg Wassmo´s great grandmother, grandmother and mother. It is about the men they wanted and the…
Against Nature
Tomas EspedalIn contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely bound up with the author's personal experiences. TRAMP (2006) introduced us to the wanderer Tomas.…
Home to Me
Trude MarsteinHe is unfaithful when he is 33 years old, and he is still unfaithful when he is 62 years old. He cheats on his first wife with the woman who will become his second wife. He cheats…
The Bonfire
Bergljot Hobæk Haff“The teacher was exactly as commonplace as a teacher is supposed to be in such a small corner of the world.” Thus begins Hobæk Haff’s modern classic The Bonfire . Though being…
The Magdalena Fjord
Kjartan FløgstadShortlisted for the Brage Prize 2014 Adi Enberg, Marina Noreg, Magdalena Freud Joyce: three enigmatic and complex women who set their stamp on – and were fatally marked by – the…
Naked Truth
Agnes Lovise MatreEveryone looks after each other in the small, idyllic village community of Øystese in Hardanger, but what happens the day the idyll fractures and one of their own does the…