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Doppler by Erlend Loe EN
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A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best Book A bestseller in Scandinavia -- Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose. This beguiling modern fable tells the story of a man who, after the death of his father, abandons his home, his family, his career, and the trappings of civilization for a makeshift tent in the woods where he adopts a moose-calf named Bongo. Or is it Bongo who adopts him? Together they devote themselves, with some surprising results, to the art of carefree living. Hilarious, touching, and poignant in equal measure --... continue
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Ein Serienkiller findet seine Opfer über die Dating-App Tinder. Die Osloer Polizei hat keine Spur. Der einzige Spezialist für Serientäter, Harry Hole, unterrichtet an der Polizeihochschule, weil er mehr Zeit für seine Frau Rakel und ihren Sohn Oleg haben möchte. Doch Holes alter Chef Mikael Bellmann kennt Olegs Vergangenheit und setzt Hole unter Druck. Der Kommissar gibt schließlich nach und arbeitet hochkonzentriert mit seinen Leuten an dem Fall. In einer Atmosphäre der Angst zögern viele Frauen, sich weiter über die App zu verabreden. Die schlimmsten Befürchtungen werden wahr, als tatsächlic... continue
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Estado del malestar by Nina Lykke, Ana Flecha Marco ES
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Nadie conoce tan bien como un médico de cabecera las corrientes subyacentes de la población. He pasado por todo, sin gluten, sin lactosa, sin azúcar; cada dos titulares en los periódicos y en la web llevan a las personas sanas a creer que si simplemente dejan de comer pan o queso, todo se arreglará. Las personas de mediana edad no entienden por qué están tan cansadas todo el tiempo. Es porque estás envejeciendo, les digo, pero ellos piensan que esto del envejecimiento no se aplica a ellos, de la misma manera que creen que esto de la muert... continue
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Fanget - Biobrikken Bok 2 by Ben Ormstad NO
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Tiden renner ut for menneskehetens frihet. Kun et par dager gjenstår før tvangsinnføringen av biobrikken igangsettes - ikke bare Norge, men i hele verden. Biobrikken, en databrikke som sprøytes inn i hånden og registrerer alt om deg - gener og helsetilstand, hva du spiser og drikker, hvor du til enhver tid befinner deg, hvem du omgås, hva du liker og ikke liker. Alt privatliv vil forsvinne. For alltid. Makteliten vet tiden er knapp. Motstandsbevegelsen viser uventet effektiv rekruttering av medlemmer og våpenteknologisk opprustning. ----------------------------- Læreren og programmereren Ali K... continue
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Girls Against God : A Novel by Jenny Hval EN
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A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson. Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get ... continue
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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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Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset EN
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The first historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter A Penguin Classic More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published Gunnar’s Daughter, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country’s history, the Saga Age. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar's Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelli... continue