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Love by Hanne Orstavik EN
NorwayDescription:
'Love' is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norway. It's the day before Jon's birthday, and a travelling carnival has come to the village. Jon goes out to sell lottery tickets for his sports club, and Vibeke is going to the library. From here on we follow the two individuals on their separate journeys through a cold winter's night - while a sense of uneasiness grows. 'Love' illustrates how language builds its own reality, and thus how mother and son can live in completely separate worlds. This distance is found not only between h... continue
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Mañana y tarde by Jon Fosse ES
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Nace un niño que se llamará Johannes. Muere un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos dos puntos, Jon Fosse nos da los detalles de toda una vida, crudamente comprimidos. Comenzando con los pensamientos del padre de Johannes cuando su esposa se pone de parto, y terminando con los propios pensamientos de Johannes cuando se embarca en un día de su vida en el que todo es exactamente igual, pero totalmente diferente, Mañana y tarde es una obra sobre el hermoso sueño de que nuestras vidas tienen sentido. Los momentos a lo largo de la novela son simples, cotidianos, pero la prosa rítmica, tortuosa y r... continue
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Mi lucha 1. La muerte del padre by Karl Ove Knausgård ES
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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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Morning and Evening -- WINNER of the 2023 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE by Jon Fosse EN
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A novel about the birth and death of Johannes the fisherman - a key work in 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse's oeuvre.
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Mysteries : A Novel by Knut Hamsun EN
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In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, righteous and depraved, Nagel seduces the entire community even as he turns it on its head—before disappearing as suddenly as he arrived.
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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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Nichts wächst im Mondschein : Roman by Torborg Nedreaas DE
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Die große Wiederentdeckung aus Norwegen, der Kult-Klassiker aus dem Jahr 1947: über Liebe und Sex, weibliches Begehren und soziale Gerechtigkeit - Neuübersetzung in 13 Sprachen. Ein kleiner norwegischer Küstenort in den vierziger Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts: ein nächtlicher Bahnhof, eine Frau mit einem roten Koffer, ein Fremder voller Einsamkeit im Gepäck. Gemeinsam gehen sie durch die Gassen, Seite an Seite, inmitten des dichten Schnees, der fällt, und der Kälte, die an den Gliedern zerrt. Bei ihm zu Hause dann erzählt sie ihm, einer modernen Scheherazade gleich, ihr Leben. Das ist der Ha... continue
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Nigdje, Niotkuda by Bekim Sejranović HR
Country: Europe / 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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U romanu Nigdje, niotkuda Bekim Sejranović prati svog junaka od djetinjstva u Brčkom, preko srednjoškolskih i fakultetskih godina u Rijeci. Završava u izbjeglištvu u Oslu. U jednoj sceni, od bačvi u kojima baka kiseli kupus, radi splav. Njime se namjerava spuštati Savom, pa dobiva od bake degenek. U drugoj je panker koji svira bas u bendu Paranoya. Zatim se skriva po Rijeci od onih koji uhićuju mladiće i šalju ih u rat u Bosnu, pa je izbjeglica u Norveškoj… Tamo ulazi u dvije „teške“ ljubavne veze, i nakon njih bježi na ledeni otok na samom sjeveru Norveške, gdje noć i dan traju po šest mjese... continue
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North of Dawn : A Novel by Nuruddin Farah EN
SomaliaDescription:
A couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia, where he kills himself in a suicide attack. The couple reluctantly offers a haven to his family. But on arrival in Oslo, their daughter-in-law cloaks herself even more deeply in religion, while her children h... continue