Cultural books from Norway
Recommended cultural books (4)
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If you are into cultural here are some cultural books from Norway for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun EN
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The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway.
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Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of Naive. Super quits university in an attempt to discover a raison d'etre. He recounts a series of anecdotes, which culminate in a trip to stay with his brother in New York. He writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it.
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Sameproblemet by Kathrine Nedrejord NO
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Fortelleren, Marie, inviterer oss med inn i sin sfære. Alle minnene og historiene strømmer på idet hun reiser fra Paris og til familien i Finnmark for å delta i mormorens begravelse. Her er røttene hennes, storfamilien, barndomsopplevelsene og alt hun har lagt bak seg i sitt nye liv med mann og barn i Frankrike, alt hun har unnveket i mange år. Men nå som hun bestemmer seg for å skrive mormorens – áhkkus – historie, slipper hun også sin egen historie til.
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