Biography books set in Norway (3)


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Mi lucha 1. La muerte del padre by Karl Ove Knausgård ES

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.


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Two Sisters : A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey into the Syrian Jihad by Åsne Seierstad EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
The riveting true story of two sisters' journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them home Two Sisters, by the international bestselling author Åsne Seierstad, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway, one day discover that their teenage daughters, Leila and Ayan, have vanished—and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad's riveting account traces the sisters' journey from secular, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria, and follows Sadiq's harrowing a... continue