Books set in Norway (108)


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91.

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
A gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt . . . Beautiful and chilling' Madeline Miller, author of CirceOn Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant. Now the women must fend for themselves. Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring ... continue

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The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgard EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
A New York Times Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 "Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times The international bestseller from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning h... continue

93.

The Night House : A novel by Jo Nesbo EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel When the voices call, don't answer. In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like ... continue

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The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together' To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful g... continue

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The Other Name : Septology I-II by Jon Fosse EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
An elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, from the author of Scenes from a Childhood.

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The Prose Edda : Tales from Norse Mythology by Snorri Sturluson EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Iceland flag Iceland
Description:
Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. Its gods live with the tragic knowledge of their own impending destruction in the cataclysmic battle of Ragnarok. Its time scale spans the eons from the world’s creation to its violent end. This robust new translation captures the magisterial sweep and startling psychological complexity of the Old Icelandic original. For more than seventy years, Penguin has ... continue

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The Redbreast : The 3rd Harry Hole Novel by Jo Nesbø EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
Harry Hole, drunkard, loner and brilliant detective is reassigned to surveillance after a high profile mistake.Hes bored by his new job until a report of a rare and unusual gun being fired sparks his interest because of its possible links to Neo Nazi activity. Then a former soldier is found with his throat cut. Next Harrys former partner is murdered. Why had she been trying to reach Harry on the night her head was smashed in? The investigation leads Harry to suspect that the crimes have their roots in the battlefields of Eastern Front during WWII. In a quest that takes him to South Africa and ... continue

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The Snowman : A Harry Hole Thriller (Oslo Sequence 5) by Jo Nesbø EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING MICHAEL FASSBENDER OVER 33 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE The first snow will come. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman. And then he will appear again. As Harry Hole and his team begin their investigation they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. And when the snow is gone... When a second woman disappears it seems that Harry's worst suspicions are confirmed: for the first time in h... continue

99.

The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
In The Solitaire Mystery, Hans Thomas and his father set out on a car trip through Europe, from Norway to Greece - the birthplace of philosophy - in search of Hans Thomas's mother, who left them many years earlier. On the way, Hans Thomas receives a mysterious miniature book - the fantastic memoir of a sailor shipwrecked in 1842 on a strange island where a deck of cards has come to life. But how do these stories fit together? Who is the little man who keeps cropping up on their trip? And why must Hans Thomas learn about the distant past before he can understand his mother's more recent disappe... continue

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The Swarm by Frank Schätzing EN

Rating: 4.6 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Now a CW Original Series The Der Spiegel number #1 blockbuster bestseller about an intelligent life force that takes over the oceans and exacts revenge on mankind! Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic eyeless crabs poison Long Island’s water supply. Around the world, countries are beginning to feel the effects of the ocean’s revenge. In this riveting novel, full of twists, turns, and cliffhangers, a team of scientists discovers a strange, intelligent life force called the Yrr that takes form in marine animals in order to wreak havoc on man for his abuses. The Day After Tomorrow meets The Abyss in... continue